Under the Westway
by Blur

Album: Not on an album (2012)
Charted: 34
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  • There were blue skies in my city today
    Everything was sinking
    Said snow would come on Sunday
    The old school was due and the traffic grew
    Upon the Westway
    Where I stood watching comets lonesome trails
    Shining up above me the jet fuel it fell
    Down to earth where the money always comes first
    And the sirens sing

    Bring us the day they switch off the machines
    'Cause men in yellow jackets putting adverts inside my dreams
    An automated song and the whole world gone
    Fallen under the spell of the distance between us when we communicate
    Still picking up shortwave
    Somewhere they're out in space
    It depends how you're wired when the night's on fire
    Under the Westway

    Now it's magic arrows hitting the bull
    Doing one eighty still standing at last call
    When the flags coming down
    And the Last Post sounds
    Just like a love song
    For the way I feel about you
    Paradise not lost it's in you
    On a permanent basis I apologize
    But I am going to sing

    Hallelujah
    Sing it out loud and sing it to you
    Am I lost out at sea
    'Til a tide wash me up off the Westway Writer/s: Damon Albarn, David Alexander De Horne Rowntree, Graham Coxon, Steven Alexander James
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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