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Lyrics:
Grey skies, suburban pines
Come watch a film at mine.
That’s where you grew up playing,
Near the bridge above the motorway.
Big news in our hometown -
They’re building a new roundabout,
Will anybody ever get out,
Our neck of the woods?
Some chapters that you never knew,
I wore a t-shirt in the swimming pool,
When the nettles seemed to smell like lemon,
And the frogs got in the classroom.
I played a lot of golf with dad that winter,
Got pretty good at missing sitters,
Maybe one day I’ll be a big hitter,
And cross 300 yards.
And I wonder what you did those days,
Getting busy singing in the rain,
Would you tell Gene Kelly that you like his hair,
But if you wanna learn the language then you’ve gotta live there?
I know you got a job nearby,
Stacking shelves to pass the time,
Around then I had gone away,
Hadn’t met you yet, but i'll meet you someday.
I’m 28 in ‘Cathedral grove’,
Here in Canada the trees can grow, I
n their quiet life they reach the sky,
One’s 70 metres high!
And I’d read a book on the evergreens,
They’d taken town in the 70’s,
Planted there for their privacy,
But they wouldn’t stop you meeting me.
Came home that summer and I didn’t leave,
Made a nest among the trees,
Nestled in with family,
My wings got tired of flying.
Out the rough and tumble, urban jungle,
We were river swimmers, we were night star lovers,
Like shy little deer we would run for cover,
Found our cover in each other’s arms.
And its so true, until I met you,
I’d never really danced before,
I’d slipped up once on a wedding floor,
From then just stood there watching.
And its funny now that you love somehow,
That I wear my slippers around the town,
Trip over when we walk the dog,
Use the windscreen wipers til you tell me stop.
And we both love the windows open,
Both have a funny thing about elbows,
And now we’ve joined the swimming pool,
And this July I’ll marry you.
We grew up in suburban pines,
Strangers til the stars aligned,
Shopped at the same supermarkets,
The same old chalky walks.
Well if I knew that someday soon,
In suburban pines I’d be meeting you,
Somewhere down that avenue,
I would have danced the road wearing different shoes.
Yea, if I knew that someday soon,
In suburban pines I’d be meeting you,
Somewhere down the avenue,
I would have danced the road wearing different shoes.
So is the real magic,
The doorstep glory,
In the real life ordinary story?
Cos it feels like, I’m gonna be alright.
Feels like, it's gonna be alright.
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