The Starting Line - Keane

This town was our lovers' stage

But now you can’t recognise

The streetlights that are daggers to your eyes

You can’t find your bearings

You’re slipping into the ground

The scene has no colour and no sound

Do you still believe in me

After the things I’ve done?

Do you fear for what we have become?

The ground is uneven

We stumble from day to day

But shelter where it’s easy

I know your feet are like lead

But you’ve got to get underway

Drag your heart up to the starting line

Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time

It’s too easy to get left behind

I know you’ve been kicked around

But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me

Each heart is a paper kite

Blown around by the breeze

Love won’t rest 'til it brings you to your knees

Some find it easy

Some will never even know

You think you’ve done your journey

Then you stumble and find

That there’s such a long way to go

Drag your heart up to the starting line

Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time

It’s too easy to get left behind

I know you’ve been kicked around

You wanna be lost and not be found

Let’s take the back way into town

And drink to the bad times

Lay them down on me

Girl, I still believe in you

You’re too good to fall so low

We’re gonna find a better life, I know

Things will be clearer

And soon as we make a start

We’ll be that much nearer

We’re too old to just stand here

Waiting to break apart

Drag your heart up to the starting line

Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time

It’s too easy to get left behind

I know you’ve been kicked around

But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me

On me, on me