Under the Westway

Under The Westway

There were blue skies in my city today
Everything was sinking said snow would come on Sunday
The old school was due
and the traffic grew up on the westway

where I stood watching comets lonesome trails
Shining up above me the jet fuel it fell
down to earth where the money always comes first
and the sirens sing

Bring us the day they switch off the machines
Cos men in yellow jackets putting adverts inside my dream
An automated song and the whole world gone
Fallen under the spell of the
distance between us when we communicate
Still picking up shortwave somewhere they're out in space
It depends how you're wired when the night's on fire
under the westway

Now it's magic arrows hitting the bull
Doing 180 still standing at last call
When the flags coming down
And the last post sounds
Just like a love song

For the way I feel about you
Paradise not lost, it's in you
On a permanent basis I apologise
But I am going to sing

Hallelujah
Sing it out loud and sing it to you
Am I lost out at sea
'Til a tide wash me up off the westway