Beneath the London sky Where heaven I was never meant to occupy Cheap wine and tarmac haze Hey, let's stick a band of drowning timeless days That long-sought free summer lasted just an hour Gone before the sun slid down behind the tower The city stretched for miles I spent headlong in those fragile, awkward smiles I never saw that tower Or the setting sun at the violet hour Twenty weeks and months away but not believing That a future ever lasts beyond the evening Cheap wine and tarmac haze Hey, let's stick a band of drowning timeless days One thousand times betrayed Too weak to keep the promises I made That long-sought free summer lasted just an hour Gone before the sun slid down behind the tower *
