LYRICS TO BEACHCOMBER'S WINDOWSILL

ZORBING

Conkers shining on the ground, the air is cooler and I feel like I just started uni
Walking backwards to my van, you’re at your window and I’m tripping every time I think of:

Lying in your attic, I can feel the static; the storm has broken, heavens open

Send my body out to work, but leave my senses in orbit over South-East London
Wind the window down and pinch me on the shoulder, else I’ll be driving off to dream of

Lying in your attic I can feel the static; the storm has broken, heavens open
So electrifying, oh I’m nearly flying; lost my heart between the sheets of lightning

I’ve been singing you this song inside a bubble, been zorbing through the streets of Cowley
We were always meant to be, zorbing together, and I think it’s high time we started...



I SAW YOU BLINK
I caught the sun, on my way home when I was still daydreaming
And I need to know, are you the one / Oh Lucy could you really be the one that I’ve been wishing on
Yes I need to know / Oh Lucy I can’t stop myself from wondering
Are you the one I’ve been waiting for?
I saw you blink, and I missed your blue eyes when we were talking upstairs
And what would I see, if I looked deep through the coloured glass, in through the window?
I climbed up the hill when I got home, and I faced out towards you
What are you thinking over there…

FUEL UP
Curled up in the back of the car, nine years old you don’t know where you are
And your head’s on the window, your eyes are just closed, there’s a voice in the front and a hush on the road
You’re a passenger, but your mind is travelling on

Open your eyes and you’re nine years older, hands on the wheel and you’re racing on over
To lie with your first love you can’t wait to see her, you borrowed the car and you think you’re the driver
But now you’re a passenger to your own heart, and it takes you travelling on

When that morning broke and the sky fell down, it went black as night and the wind blew around
And stole your directions, you lost your way home, and you felt like a passenger left by the road
Well I’ll tell you the reason you couldn’t get home, cos it’s nowhere you’ve been and it’s nowhere you’re going
Home is only a feeling you get in your mind, from the people you love and you travel beside

You may feel like a passenger, but now you’re the driver; you’ve got to go travelling, travelling on
Cos if you break down, it’s a cold hard shoulder

So fuel up your mind, and fire up your heart, and drive on
And when your days are darker, put your foot down harder, drive on

Well it’s nine more years you’ve been driving now, and tonight you’re stumbling through your old town
You met up with a school friend who’s still just the same, and you talked all the same shit you talked in those days
And now you’re drunk and you’re sad for the old times passing you by

Well there’s no rewind; so you might as well play, while your time is rolling away

And get back on the road, it’s a beautiful day, pick up all the friends you can find on your way
And if you lose direction they’ll be there, guiding you on

Cos we’re all bound the same way, down this long road



THE COLDHARBOUR ROAD
I am a seabird, you are the Arctic Ocean
I know your seasons, and your sanctuaries
And when I’m wheeling over your wild white horses
I know there’s nowhere else that I belong
I am a small town, you are a tornado
And down the High Street you tear into me,
Bring down the power lines and you twist the heart right out of me
Leaving my outskirts devastated
And as you’re going, the tears are flowing
Cos while you’re leaving, I’m still believing
You are a memory, I am the mind you enter
A single moment in a single bed
This is the feeling you are bringing back to me
Of when I was on the Coldharbour Road
Four in the morning and my ears are ringing,
As I lie wide awake on the living room floor

BOATS & TRAINS
Waiting for a train, going nowhere in a nowhere station
Staying up last night, going nowhere with my trains of thought
Sleeping with your boy, going nowhere in a long-distance relation
Blinded of your senses, by the fear of unrequited love

Once more I woke up in the moonlight
Once more our paths crossed through the night

And a moment’s hesitation, your silent invocation
And you shielded me from your glow like a moth against your window
And I’m too shy to stop you in your tracks
You leave me in the dark

Drifting in my boat, going nowhere with my aspirations
You and me connected, unexpected in our drifting thoughts
But you still see him, and I am sinking in the storm of separation
Blinded of my senses, by the fear of unrequited love

And I need someone to stop me from drifting
It’s getting late to be travelling

Destined to go nowhere, by the fear of unrequited love



WE ARE THE BATTERY HUMAN
Where are going this fine morning, what are we doing this fine day
We’re doing the same as every morning
We’re staying inside on this fine morning, staying inside on this fine day
We’ll stare at a screen like every morning
And outside the window spring is here, but we’re gonna hibernate all year,
Under a pile of A4 snowflakes
Cos we’re the new generation, we are the Battery Human
But we were born to be free range
We’ve got the whole world at our fingers, we’ve got the whole world in our hands
But we get the blues as we grow richer
Cos we need to fix our loose connection, out in the natural world-wide web
Where humans evolved in three dimension
We were tuned in by natural selection, and we need to go on-line each day
Cos inside we don’t get no reception
So join the new revolution, to free the Battery Human
‘Cause we were born to be free range
HERE COMES THE BLACKOUT...!
You’re standing on the only chair, and you’re singing to the screens and the moving stairs, all on your own in the arrivals

You heard it in the watchman’s cry, and you saw it in the bleeding evening sky, but you’ve got a Swiss Army in your pocket
Cos here comes the blackout…!

Now the hooded snake controls your mind, it stole your eye on the seventh of July
We’ve got to learn to love our neighbours, before our neighbours start scaring the love out of us

Before they frighten the love out of us

In the story of the matchstick girl, she was freezing on the streets of Petersberg. She lit a match and found a warmer world
But here comes the blackout…!



WATCHING BIRDS
Well her eyes, they hypnotised like a pair of headlights
And I remember how she crashed headlong into my life.
So I said “now close those eyes, and stick a pin into this map”
And then she said “now look around, because there’ll be no looking back!”
Well I’ve been looking since the day we parted
But you don’t find happiness when you’re searching for it
And I might have realised I was wasting precious time
But I never had a chance to change the batteries in my watch
It’s a Monday night in June, and I should be sleeping
But it’s so damn warm inside, I’m in the garden dreaming
And I’ve got one chair for myself and another for my feet,
But I still don’t feel complete
Well she calls me everyday just to touch base with me
And the birds upon the wire, they feel our electricity
And I watch them as they fly, and she lifts me up with them – until I fall for her again
I’ve been working since the day I left her
I’m making money watching birds, but I don’t feel no richer
And I should have realised I was wasting precious time
But I never had the chance to change the batteries in my watch

ON THE ROCKS
January calls round to find me, alone in this place where I’ve been living
My real home lives down the river, where she’s making circles with her tears
February blows even colder, and I’ll send my love downstream
In words and verses in plastic boxes – but she’s still unready to take them in

And they’re bobbing underneath the bridges, out to the ocean and back on the rocks

The rain came down back in December when you told me you were drifting
And the waters rose, while my door swang closed on the circles that you lived in

And you got so caught up in the swirls and eddies, that you never saw where you were heading

You were bobbing underneath the bridges, out to the ocean and back on the rocks

Spring is only round the corner as I’m writing you this final letter
I’ll drop it in the cool green water, from the bridge where we jumped in together
I hope it will be carried to you
Cast upon the rocks beside you
I hope the words serve to remind you
Of someone you can’t leave behind you
Someone you still hold inside you
Someone who’ll be waiting here for you

To take me from this burning bridge, before I end up back on the rocks



THE END OF THE MOVIE
6AM, you left me for the last time; on my doorstep, blinking in the sunshine
Blamed and framed, I’m frozen in the picture; hanging in the space you left inside me
I climbed upstairs into the final scene; waiting for the credits to appear, for all the years that I’ve been
Starring in a film with you
Leading with a star I knew
And I’m waking up, in a lone beam of light
Where the dust is dancing as the music fades
On my way out for the very last time; off my doorstep, straight into the sunshine
Walking west and following the coastline; looking for a sea change
You led me here when the world began, and the breakers shook the moonlit sand
Saw your pale face shining through the spray, and I was blown away with the feeling I was
But I’m waking up…

LONG-DISTANCE LULLABY
Goodnight, goodnight
The sun is long out of sight, and I stagger home by the streetlight
Goodnight, goodnight
Went out after work tonight, only meant to stay for a swift pint

And I’m giving you a call, though I’m in no fit state
and I know it’s far too late, and I’m hardly thinking straight

But I’ve missed you ever since you moved away from here
And it’s not the same this year; wish I could teleport you here tonight to say

Goodnight Soulmate, I know I’m in no state to call you up and keep you up so late
But I had to hear you talking in my ear; I’ve been so lonely since you left me here

So goodnight
I’m back and I’m through the door now; hear me go bouncing down the hall now
Goodnight, goodnight soulmate
Oh but if you were here tonight, we could climb up through the skylight

Remember lying in your attic on those summer nights
Our hands trembling side by side; well those were the best days of my whole life
And now I know you’re moving on and I’ve been trying too,
Been trying not to speak to you, but I still can’t sleep here without you to wish me a goodnight

I’ve got my friends, but I can’t really talk to them like I can talk to you
Remember how we used stay up very very late, and smoke and
Listen, did I say how much I miss you
Now I’m keeping you from sleeping
I only called to wish you could be here tonight, to hold me while I’m wishing you a goodnight