Meeting Up - Maxïmo Park

The late laughter of the lonely

Echoes through renovated hallways

In a town that I thought

I had forgotten

Where the hairdressers' names

Are not their real names

The prefabricated buildings

Are bound to outlive me

I thought about meeting up

Do you think about meeting up?

The things that I used to think

Are off limits to me now

The imagined scenarios

Of ageing Lotharios

I’m better off out of it

But you’re still kissing in taxis

This residual feeling

Now what would you call it?

Do you rise as early as I?

I thought about meeting up

But I seem to have forgotten your routine

Dare I type the words you long to read?

I thought about meeting up

Do you think about meeting up?

No chance encounters

Don’t dare to doubt us

I don’t think about meeting up, do you?

Early risers

Seekers not finders

I won’t think about the words you long to read

Do you rise as early as I?

Do you think about meeting up?

Words unwritten

Sung in silence

Defiance defines you