[ti:This Is London]
[ar:Don McGlashan]
[al:Warm Hand]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]This Is London - Don McGlashan
[00:02.49]The traffic has gone quiet
[00:04.89]
[00:09.00]Just the finger-tip drumming
[00:12.33]
[00:15.91]Of the last train on the hill
[00:18.22]
[00:22.45]Now only I can hear it coming
[00:25.81]
[00:29.52]And the moon is way up high
[00:32.21]
[00:36.33]Like a giant map-maker
[00:39.16]
[00:42.85]She paints the windows of our house
[00:46.17]
[00:49.93]With a yellow highlighter
[00:52.67]
[00:57.01]And a voice says
[00:58.02]This is London
[00:59.25]
[01:00.17]And I wait and count the beats
[01:02.41]
[01:03.98]And the night fills up the valley
[01:05.99]
[01:07.02]And the cleaners clean the streets
[01:09.65]
[01:10.80]And the words bounce off the satellites
[01:13.84]And they fall back down to earth
[01:17.30]Across miles and miles of ocean
[01:20.57]To the city of my birth
[01:22.90]
[01:29.42]And the inattentive drivers
[01:34.47]
[01:36.06]And the black ice on the bridges
[01:39.88]
[01:42.93]And the friends who break their promises
[01:45.87]
[01:49.75]And the comfortless strangers
[01:52.92]
[01:56.59]I can see them all a-circling
[02:00.93]
[02:03.61]Out there in the future
[02:07.78]
[02:10.12]But tonight they can't hurt you
[02:13.81]
[02:17.10]Tonight they don't matter
[02:20.45]
[02:23.84]And a voice says
[02:24.91]This is London
[02:27.12]And I wait and count the beats
[02:29.63]
[02:30.57]And the night fills up the valley
[02:33.34]
[02:34.13]And the cleaners clean the streets
[02:36.82]
[02:37.72]And the words bounce off the satellites
[02:40.96]And they fall back down to earth
[02:44.03]Across miles and miles of ocean
[02:46.88]
[02:47.46]To the city of my birth
[02:51.86]
[03:23.64]I know you are asleep now
[03:26.79]
[03:30.13]You've gone heavy on my shoulder
[03:34.22]
[03:37.38]I carry you to your bed
[03:39.74]
[03:43.95]Like a boat across the water
[03:47.19]
[03:50.77]And a voice says
[03:51.71]This is London
[03:53.31]
[03:54.10]And I wait and count the beats
[03:56.49]
[03:57.49]And the night fills up the valley
[04:00.13]
[04:01.00]And the cleaners clean the streets
[04:03.35]
[04:04.31]And the words bounce off the satellites
[04:07.71]And they fall back down to earth
[04:11.06]Across miles and miles of ocean
[04:14.53]To the city of my birth
[04:18.57]And a voice says
[04:24.86]
[04:25.52]This is London
[04:28.50]
[04:30.77]The words bounce off
[04:32.33]
[04:33.23]And the words bounce off satellites
[04:37.90]
[04:39.01]And they fall back down to earth