Intro
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Em
[Verse 1]
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There were blue skies in my city today
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Ev'ry thing was sinking, said snow would come on Sunday
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The old school was due and the traffic grew
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Up on the Westway
[Verse 2]
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Where I stood watching comets on their lonesome trails
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Shining up above me the jet fuel it fell
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Down to Earth where the money always comes first
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And the sirens sing
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Bring us the day they switch off the machines
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'Cos men in yellow jackets, putting adverts inside my dreams
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An automated song and the whole world gone
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Fallen under the spell of the
[Verse 4]
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Distance between us when we communicate
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Still picking up shortwave, somewhere they're out in space
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It depends how you're wired when the night's on fire
Em
Under the Westway
[Instrumental]
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Em
[Verse 5]
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Now it's magic arrows hitting the bull
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Doing 180 still standing at last call
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When the flag's coming down, and the Last Post sounds
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Just like a love song
[Verse 6]
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For the way I feel about you
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Paradise not lost, it's in you
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On a permanent basis I apologise
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But I am going to sing
[Verse 7]
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Hallelujah
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Sing it out loud and sing it to you
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G#m I lost out at sea, 'til a tide wash me
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Up off the Westway.