Street of Orange Light

I tried to do it all

I found I had to fall

I tried the church on Sundays

Got up for work on Mondays

I've climbed through it all

Great expectations subside

Lay my ambitions aside

All I can do is survive

And untie all the mysteries

In heart and in mind

Skateboards and snowballs

First time I threw my fist

Paint walls with band names

Broken bottle scarred my wrist

First kiss in plaster cast

Now the doorway's boarded up

Memory of my mother saying goodbye

As she walked right off

To work on the factory floor

I failed to understand

I'm all but just a man

I'm skin and bone and muscle

I can crumble, I can buckle

I can stand and I can fall

Great expectations subside

Lay my ambitions aside

All I can do is survive

And untie all the mysteries

In heart and in mind

Deckchairs and mixtapes

And sand beneath my toes

Haircuts and trainers

I wish would wash ashore

Rain watching, doorsteps

In sleeping bags at night

Change channel with a pool stick

On our street of orange light

And it feels so right