Beautiful Alone

(Heaton/Rotheray) Like the contents of your handbag You don't know why it's there People ask you where you're heading You just answer "anywhere" We don't mean to be this vague It just happens that we are No-one asked us to elaborate We just shrug our shoulders and be And like the stories that just happened No-one thought of, no-one planned We could have ruled, we could have conquered Then we could have been a man We could be ex-husband We could be ex-wife But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life Alone, alone Half an hour is seven hours One day is several months Alone, alone A month is a calendar A year can be a decade spent Alone He knows "hello" in eighteen languages "I love you" in only one By the time he's got his phrase-book The chance is usually gone And we feel ourselves quite prepared But quite prepared for what We always took the lead Before we actually knew the plot And you can tell where we've been shopping By the bags beneath our eyes Make-up shoulders burden But the smile never lies We could be ex-husband We could be ex-wife But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life Alone, alone Half an hour is seven hours One day is several months Alone, alone A month is a calendar A year can be a decade spent Alone So empty at the airport You don't set off the doors We used to feel like chorus girls And now we feel like whores Hearts built like reservoirs Words built like dams Thoughts built like juggernauts Our actions built like prams And when the wind blows into our face We should be warmer and not colder Well, what price the charges On this cargo that we shoulder We could be ex-husband We could be ex-wife But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life Alone, alone Half an hour is seven hours One day is several months Alone, alone A month is a calendar A year can be a decade spent Alone And we only smoke when bored So we do two packs a day And we've lost the difference Between bored and lonely anyway

Hold on tight, be the strong one to melt the fight, make it alright Hatred grows, leaving leads for us, yes it shows, can't find harmony You won't heal, It's for real Surely fall, never take friendship personal, Go your own way and prove them wrong It's in your hands now, hanging on to the hopeful words, Plant a seed with a need I am never alone, I'm failing now to turn I will never miss home, I want to get back again I am never alone, my colors will burn, Never alone, always alone Fearful eyes watching all around, All this time with no heart and you never cry Where's the power in that? It's not right, sending signals of shame I once knew, so did you I am never alone, I'm failing to turn I will never miss home, I want to get back again I am never alone, my colors will burn, Never alone, always alone I am never, I am always alone, I will never miss home, Breathing lives, and your tears streaming, Time we now, so Hold on tight, be the strong one to melt the fight, Make it right!