A MAN FOR WORDS

This isn't much of anything

But you said you want to see it

Here you go then

Here you go then

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I've never been a man for words

If only I could write them down

Here we go then

Here we go then

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Does anybody really know me?

And to be honest

I don't know myself

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Seem you're in my memories

With all these thoughts

And nothing else

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When our words get lost to time

Should anybody trust this?

We're different people

We're different people

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Did something change along the way?

Mistakes that we're making

As I'm writing this

As I'm writing this

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Does anybody really know me?

And to be honest

I don't know myself

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Seem you're in my memories

With all these thoughts

And nothing else

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The city of unknown faces

And the sea of closed minds

Standing on the shore of disgraces 

The world is changing

I'm left behind

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The city of unknown faces

And the sea of closed minds

Standing on the shore of disgraces 

The world is changing

I'm left behind

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Does anybody really know me?

And to be honest

I don't know myself

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Seem you're in my memories

With all these thoughts

And nothing else

I am writing this today

To inform you of my absence

In your life

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I know it seems a long time coming

And I know you never planned this

We never ended

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But your life is going one way

And mine feels stratospheric

One day I'll be earthbound again

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And from this moment that I'm resting on

You see me flourishing

While you fade away again

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I know it's not always as easy

To feel we're disconnected

But we are

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And when you're on your own for hours

I hope you stop and think of me

Can't say the same for you

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But it's typical of me to not message you

But I see my ivory tower

Lined with pictures of you

Lined with pictures of you

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But your life is going one way

And mine feels stratospheric

One day I'll be earthbound again

But your life is going one way

And mine feels stratospheric

One day I'll be earthbound again

One day I'll be earthbound again

"Close your eyes and count to eight

Now it's time to imaginate"

These words I thought I left behind

Perfectly store in the back of my mind

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It's not what you've planned

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Each weekend we live through

As seasons go by

We grow and evolve 

Without knowing why

Thoughts that we're losing

They never occur

The haste of a childhood

Is gone in a blur

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As we look forward our sight is obscured

Our bodies will wither from what they've endured

If you are like me don't know where to go

You'll end up somewhere the ebb and the flow

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It's not what you've planned

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Each weekend we live through

As seasons go by

We grow and evolve 

Without knowing why

Thoughts that we're losing

They never occur

The haste of a childhood

Is gone in a blur

If my brain is wrong and you're right

Why can't I seem to sleep at night?

Cos missing yous the easy part

The challenge is forgetting my heart

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I needed just a bit of a walk

But it's lonely on my own

No one to talk to

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Think about the outcome you want

All the ways that you will change it

My can and your can't

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If my brain is wrong and you're right

Why can't I seem to sleep at night?

Cos missing yous the easy part

The challenge is forgetting my heart

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You know that I have tried this five times

Would be easy if you helped

And saw my signs too

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Every time I see you around

You're with someone I don't know

As my heart hits the ground

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If my brain is wrong and you're right

Why can't I seem to sleep at night?

Cos missing yous the easy part

The challenge is forgetting my heart

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If my brain is wrong and you're right

Why can't I seem to sleep at night?

Cos missing yous the easy part

The challenge is forgetting my heart

I've got a bone to pick with you

I never settled our petty little feud

You might say it's all a waste

Your scar remains perfectly in place

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I don't know why you say this now

Three whole years hiding from the crown

You've brought an audience I see

No more cowering face the light and me

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You think you're perfect

The golden god who glistened

You always heard never listened

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Has distance changed us?

Is this the lie we strung?

When we look back will we feel

Uncomfortably young

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Why do we fight?

It was so long ago

Do you remember what we did?

Why do we fight?

It was so long ago

Do you remember what we did?

Why do we fight?

It was so long ago

Do you remember what we did?

Why do we fight?

It was so long ago

Do you remember what we did?

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You think you're perfect

The golden god who glistened

You always heard never listened

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Has distance changed us?

Is this the lie we strung?

When we look back will we feel

Uncomfortably young

You do it for the love?

You do it for the fame?

Handing out flyers

Chucking it with rain

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Your pocket full of thumbtacks 

It's not getting any lighter

Neither is your bag of CDs

Was it how you imagined? 

Should you have gone on stage?

Submit to reality TV?

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You do it for the blood?

You do it for the tears?

Does it even matter?

Does it grind your gears?

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Your pocket full of thumbtacks 

It's not getting any lighter

Neither is your bag of CDs

Was it how you imagined? 

Should you have gone on stage?

Submit to reality TV?

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You'd do it as a job

In this dead-end useless town?

Same venue tonight

There's no way out right now

Don't know our future

Don't know your past

I wish you were my only then and now

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Running from the words

To hide in the echoes that would last

It's catching up and I know how

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So can you stop this horse tornado now?

Cos the motion is making me sick

So can you stop the talk that goes around town?

Cos all that I need is your silence you lunatic

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Surprising that the two of us are the same

When everyone else would say

"We're so different"

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But you just had to go

And make your claim

Leaving me with all that interference

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So can you stop this horse tornado now?

Cos the motion is making me sick

So can you stop the talk that goes around town?

Cos all that I need is your silence you lunatic

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You can change your appearance

And think you're so fearless

But I'll always see through you

You're dressing in fuschia

You modern-day medusa

Think it's time that you finally knew

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So can you stop this horse tornado now?

Cos the motion is making me sick

So can you stop the talk that goes around town?

Cos all that I need is your silence you lunatic

Last night as I drifted

I washed up in Kolkata

The memories came flooding back

And led me to the river

Early starts and late evenings

Those journies in cramped cars

Getting closer to one another

While listening to your poems

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It's just another case

Of me misreading the signs in your face

You never liked me, did ya?

Another February crush

In our summer far away

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One time it was raining

Or maybe it just felt that

Dealing with emotions

And crying on the landing

Climbing up the staircase

You asked how I was doing

That's when I got in my head

That you had thoughts to share

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It's just another case

Of me misreading the signs in your face

You never liked me, did ya?

Another February crush

In our summer far away

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Flying back to London

The last time that I saw you

I need to be just letting go

I never stood a chance

Wishing I was back there

Or sitting round a fire

But even just seeing you smile

Will always be enough

She thinks it's all over

They're saying it is now

The couple that would last

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She's paying the rent

They're moving for the job

Seem they're living different lives

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But as she's sorting through their items

Someone's standing right inside her door

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Welcome back to reality

Did you work it through your system?

Were you counting every single tear?

To power through the heartache

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Everyone has missed you since that person of yours changed

This really is the best for both of you

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She's bundled their belonging

To take them outside

And set it all ablaze

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T-shirt, coats and photos

And what was left behind

They don't need it now

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But as she takes one final picture

She's hearing someone's voice again

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Welcome back to reality

Did you work it through your system?

Were you counting every single tear?

To power through the heartache

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Welcome back to your reality

Welcome back to your reality

Welcome back to your reality

Welcome back to your reality

When I'm walking in the dark

You are guiding through all

And though I might be lost

You won't ever let me fall

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There's no way to repay it

With anything I do

Some will say it's silly 

That this song is just for you

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There's no way to repay it

My actions never do

Some will why bother?

I bet they don't know You

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I wonder what it's like

Life out there on the other side

Still, the mystery remains

I had my plan

My contingency

But after all

We were never meant to be

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The thing is she's lonely

But not enough to show me

Dropped your bombs

The truth left the debris

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You left me on the shelf

Now I'm struggling to get down

Tossed aside collecting dust

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We lost our love at Durdle Door

The cracks that formed

We could not ignore

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The thing is she's lonely

But not enough to show me

Dropped your bombs

The truth left the debris

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You left me on the shelf

Now I'm struggling to get down

Tossed aside collecting dust

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You left me on the shelf

Now I'm struggling to get down

Tossed aside collecting dust

"Force yourself to lose," she said

Your mind's enough sometimes

Focus on your breathing

You don't know when you'll need it

Fear the ones that don't want

Your spirit will confuse them

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You're not moving forward

It's only fair that I ditch you

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You ask me odd cold words

That you don't know what they mean

Are you spouting nonsense?

Or are we stuck on repeat?

It seems I never realised

That what you said

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You're not moving forward

It's only fair that I ditch you

Our conversations are tracing paper

Scattered all over the place

And never making sense

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You're not moving forward

It's only fair that I ditch you

Our conversations are tracing paper

And I'll be the first to say

You're as see-through as they come

It's easier to focus on the negatives

And trust me I've tried not to this time

Lonely in the bedroom dreaming of life

And waiting for somebody to turn it around

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I'm not the writer that you think of

But for you, I'll give it a go any day

We could go dancing or just stay indoors

If only you loved me the same way

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I'm not some Hollywood elitist

But baby that's fine cos I don't want to be

While your head's in the clouds

All that I'll be is someone on the ground

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I'm not the writer that you think of

But for you, I'll give it a go any day

We could go dancing or just stay indoors

If only you loved me the same way

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Just relax in your nightclothes

I'll never fit in your magical world

I won't be surprised if you'd flip

Cos I'm not the guy that you had in mind

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I'm not the writer that you think of

But for you, I'll give it a go any day