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Composer: Andy Tillison, Guy Manning

The Tangent - Lost in London lyrics



I ended up in London several hours ahead of time,
In the small hours of the morning and they'd even closed the Circle Line,
I'd hitch-hiked it in one lift! The kind of trip of which you dream
Until one day you don't need it, then you get it!... so it seems.

I wandered in from Acton, even passed the BBC,
Imagining that one day they'd all be interviewing me,
I've got a rendezvous this morning with Virgin A & R
I'm a hopeful with a bag of tapes, and Shank's Pony for a car....

I'm a Yorkshire Kid in London - and I need lots of space
Winding roads and open fields you don't have in this place,
I'm here to see your empire, is it true what I have heard?
You've got more people here than Sweden,
But it's the loneliest place in the world.

Found an "all-night-cafe" but I didn't stay too long,
I didn't have much money (besides, this was someone else's song)
I saw the aisles of Knightsbridge, I even gigged the Albert Hall!
But in ail the hours of wandering, talked to nobody at all.

McEnroe was losing, for the first time which seemed - wrong!
And the Virgin guy was watching while he listened to my songs,
I don't know if he heard them with so much drama on the screen,
But I didn't sign a contract, - it was Andy: "Love-Fifteen"

I was a Yorkshire Kid in London, I didn't understand,
All the chaos and the "MIND THE GAP!!!" in your gold-paved business land,
I was so small you could have eaten me and never sensed the taste,
I was David, you - Goliath,
But my stones just went to waste.

Instrumental.....

At Brent Cross Shopping Centre, thumb pointing up back home,
A wiser man is waiting for some kindly soul to pull over,
I end up with protesters, who tried to stop a war,
But they went ahead and fought it, and I guess to me that matters more.

We're all Yorkshire Kids in London when it comes to being heard,
We give our all but no-one hears or notices one word,
And though a million voices tell us not to go and take Iraq,
We still went in, and we still haven't come back.

Poignant Instrumental.
Songs list of album: A Place in the Queue (2006)
         Title Rating
01   In Earnest lyrics  
5.00
02   Lost in London lyrics  
5.00
03   DIY Surgery lyrics  
4.00
04   GPS Culture lyrics  
5.00
05   Follow Your Leaders lyrics  
5.00
06   The Sun in My Eyes lyrics   -
07   A Place in the Queue lyrics  
5.00
 

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