Admiral Fallow - Building As Foreign lyrics

How we ended up here with the start we had amazes me From humble backyard brawl and smiles to zero on the gages Those tea leaves, a paper straw, a nylon fumble, a shaky jaw Coz we wore boots and football strips Some strange clothes for a first kiss And I'll point out the signs The ones that people that don't know don't care a jot for Double hedges, a single shop, that square of gra** that we wrestled on I love to come back; it's making me tall But when I get there there's nothing at all Owned the foundations and brick by brick you built a home for a family All those coats on the stand, like a cluster of people hand in hand, hang at odds with the sods who inhabit them We marked our heights by the door And sat the read-through in that September storm Sadder still to return each winter hoping to find something more than a building full of strangers The living room soaked up more tears than it's had conversations I love to come back it's making me tall But when I get there there's nothing at all Owned the foundations and brick by brick you built a home for a family, oh I love to come back it's making me tall But when I get there there's nothing at all Fly past the red bricks in double time To find a building as foreign as if it never was mine Heartbeat rises as I go down Down to that beacon in the open ground A wreckage Heartbeat rises and no surprise That we've got hunger in your open eyes You'll be glad that you came Heartbeat rises as I go down Down to that beacon in the open ground A wreckage Heartbeat rises and no surprise That we've got hunger in your open eyes You'll be glad that you came Heartbeat rises as I go down Down to that beacon in the open ground A wreckage Heartbeat rises