British Sea Power/Race Horses - The Y Theatre, Leicester - 27/10/11

let's leave this city behind

  
   two conditions:

   1/ it's got to be a sunny day
   2/ and it's got to be late afternoon

   agreed ?













   gone forever, the writing on the wall
   they’ve boarded-up the cinema
   strawberry dreams and the dust-filled beams
   shut down in a modern town
  
   see you walking, see you talking

   recollection on streets you used to know
   forgotten pleasure smoulder
   images fade but the town won’t let them go

   sleepwalking, see you talking

   feel the city inside you
   leave this city behind you

   drive wherever the roads will take you to
   down beside a river frozen brown
   January days and their scarecrow trees
   so cold - feel your ears burn

   see you walking, see you talking

   feel the city inside you
   leave this city behind you

   past and present
   they converge on every side
   the wires all get tangled
   when now and then collide
   bittersweet taste of a time and another place before

   sleepwalking, see you talking

   feel the city inside you
   feel this city define you
   leave this city behind you

   'Leave This City' - The Sundays