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