People Watching

Album: People Watching (2024)
Charted: 4
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  • I people-watch on the way back home
    Envious of the glimmer of hope
    Gives me a break from feeling alone
    Gives me a moment out of the ego
    Used to feel so invincible
    I used to feel there was a world worth dreamin' of
    Back in the Gasworks, screamin' the song
    Just the beauty of youth would quell my aching heart
    I feel so dark rememberin'

    I people-watch on the way back home
    Everybody on the treadmill, runnin'
    Under the billboards, out of the heat
    Somebody's darling's on the street tonight
    Oh, I can't stop runnin'
    I see the whole town fall
    I people-watch on the way back home
    I people-watch on the way back home

    I came back home after seven years
    Wide awake, tracing tracks of her tears
    Cornered the nurse to get the gist of it
    I promised her I'd get her out of the care home
    The place was fallin' to bits
    Understaffed and overruled by callous hands
    The poor nurse was around the clock
    And the beauty of youth had left my breaking heart
    But it wasn't hard when you love someone

    Oh, I stayed all night 'til you left this life
    'Cause that's just love

    I people-watch on the way back home
    Everybody on the treadmill, runnin'
    Under the billboards, out of the heat
    Somebody's darling's on the street tonight
    Oh, I can't stop runnin'
    I see the whole town fall
    I people-watch on the way back home
    I people-watch on the way back home

    Above the rain-soaked Garden of Remembrance
    Kittiwakes etched your initials in the sky
    Oh, I fear for this crippled island
    And the turmoil of the times
    And I'll hold you in my heart 'til the day I die

    Oh, I people-watch on the way back home
    Everybody on the treadmill, runnin'
    Under the billboards, out of the heat
    Somebody's darling's on the street tonight
    Oh, I can't stop runnin'
    I see the whole town fall
    I people-watch on the way back home
    I people-watch on the way back home

    I people-watch on the way back home
    I people-watch on the way back home Writer/s: Sam Fender
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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