This Is London

	  		
Intro 

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This is London, the place where you're a god or a disgrace 

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The whole wide world at your feet to see the look upon your face 

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And you watch the BBC and you think, "Well, what if that was me?" 

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Such a promising life to waste. 



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You told me, "Just be brave. Remember all the gifts you gave. 

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And how you felt like you were saved, 

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Like you were singing from beyond the grave." 

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And you said you'd wait for me until the day I could sing on key 

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"There's just something about your face." 



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Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me, 

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And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me, 

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Like we were home again... 



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There was just no way to know what was real and what was show 

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A future unfolding before my eyes, and a past that I could not let go 

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And how the feeling is so deep 

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when you're running down the London streets 

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Like there's nowhere left to go. 



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Among the faceless dizzy whores, the unimaginable bores, 

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Evenings stumbling from the pub, mornings shivering on the floor 

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Then the careless way you say, "Yeah, we were just glad we got to play." 

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When you're empty to the core. 



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Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me, 

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And I wanted us to be fast asleep,   closer than anything to me, 

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Like we were home again. 

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I'm so tired of the rain. 


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This is London, the place where you get lost without a trace 

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Among the beautiful remains of this shattered human race 

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All the words that go unsaid, all the sacrifices of the dead, 

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"We'll fall quietly into the past or we'll just burn the streets instead" 

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In the clamoring of the crowd, you think, "I'll just stay quiet, instead." 



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All the fallen dizzy angels crawling through the street, 

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The pleas of people weary on their feet, 

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   And you're half a world away from me, 

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As the clouds drown the light. 


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I wonder where you are tonight.