Falling Leaves -

Kiss me in the autumn at the station by the drycleaners and the fellas selling

travelcards

Hold my hands and tell me that The Fall will never leave me and The

Actionnettes won’t break my heart

Write my name in marker pen across the local bus stop and I’ll steal you all

the books you love

Call the local paper and pretend we’re getting married and I’ll borrow you my library card

You’re the blindfold round my eyes

You’re my navigation satellite

I’m a tightrope walker looking down on the sights

I don’t know what happened with your sister and her mother, but I don’t think

they’re impressed with me I don’t think they like what I’ve been doing with my life, but can’t they see

it’s only temporary?

I can’t help but worry that your friend thinks I’m a daydreamer with

aspirations quite naive

The only things worth chasing are the things that are creative, and I’m not

talking accountancy

You’re a red hotel on Mayfair

A superlative on a triple word score

I’m a battleship, you’re a direct hit and I’m sinking

And like falling leaves in autumn you can sweep me up or pass me by Like falling snow against your skin, or the cigarettes I can’t pack in And falling in with you is like a Class A drug they couldn’t ban

The photograph that makes you smile and sends a shiver down your spine

Gravity’s got me falling indefinitely

I don’t think it matters my career path’s in tatters, I could always take a course or two

Tell me what you’re thinking, maybe when I’ve finished singing, I suppose this

is a family tune

I think I’m addicted, I get panicked when you’re missing, I need patches when

you’re not around

I have conversations in my head that you’re not party to, you should have heard

the things you said!

Like an etching on my brain

Like a letter tacked on my DNA

I’m a chip pan fire, you’re the water that won’t stay away

And like falling leaves in autumn you can sweep me up or pass me by Like falling snow against your skin, or the cigarettes I can’t pack in You’re the blindfold round my eyes

You’re my navigation satellite

And just falling in with you is like a Class A drug they couldn’t ban

The photograph that makes you smile and sends a shiver down your spine

Gravity’s got me falling indefinitely

Tell me if it ever ends you’ll let me have my heart back in a single piece

You’re the one I call after closing time

The night bus spins to the spellbinding sound of your voice…