The Long Way Round - Badly Drawn Boy

Sit and wait for the day

Where your life might change

And that day never comes

This is rule number one

All the changes must come from you

Is the second rule

Take a long way round

See the sights, hear sounds

Where you’ll go, nobody knows

Been this way

Since the day

I was born

Far away

And the walk

In the rain

Makes you feel

Young again

I assumed

You would be my strength

Oh, how wrong I was

That’s the wrong way round

How you need me now

The carrousel keeps turning still

This one cried, this one smiled

But we all felt alive

Like a walk in the rain

Made us feel young again

With the crowd singing «all right now»

As the rain came down

It’s a long way home

But we’re not alone

Life’s carrousel keeps turning still

Life keeps turning around, and around

We keep learning from things we have found

Overground

What a fool

To believe

I could help

You to breathe

Getting cold

In the rain

Makes us feel

Young again

If you go

Take a long way round

You’ll be lost then found

It’s a long way home

But you’re not alone

The carrousel bring you back again

Winter comes

We don’t have a choice

As we grow

We will find a voice

She looks over her shoulder

The swimming pool freezes over

We’ll skate to the other side

Full of life

Still filled with pride