This has the elements of a love song but... well, isn't just a love song. In some ways an ode to modern life, in some ways just a simple acoustic ballad.

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Written in 2003 while at university. It's got the elements of a love song but... well, isn't just a love song. This arrangement sets it as it's always meant to have been played: just me and an acoustic guitar, plus some piano which was never meant to make it into the final mix but just, well, worked. In some ways an ode to modern life, in some ways just a simple acoustic song.

Selected lyrics:

I shouldn't be here
I'm going nowhere
Stay and sing a while
I'm busy writing into words
Your fallen king

Always be here for me singing
To the streetlights
Always casting limelight heavenwards
While I'm sleeping
Always ordering from Amazon
And receiving
Comms and telephones and changing stations
On your stereo

Fell asleep on the pavement
Tired and happy
Loneliness had got a glow inside
I thought that you loved me
And then I felt happy
I'm not singing all this f***ed upness inside

We'll climb mountains
And slide down them
And paint pictures
And kiss strangers
And then shyly run away from
All this city life is draining
But there's freedom
In the streets and I can hide there
I can feel them.