[Verse 1]
What a waste I could have been your lover
What a waste I could have been your friend
Perfect love is like the blossom that fades so quick
When it's blowing up a storm in May

[Verse 2]
Travel south until your skin gets warmer
Travel south until your skin turns brown
Put a language in your head and get on a train
And then come back to the one you love

[Verse 3]
Yeah, you're great, you're just part
Of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart
Of this long summer feeling

[Verse 4]
Quiet night you see the TVs glowing
Quiet night you hear the walls arе awake
Me and you are gеtting out of the party crowd
Can I see what's underneath your bed?

[Verse 5]
Can I stay until the milkman's working?
Can I stay until the café awakes?
Do you hate me in the light, did you get a fright
When you looked across from where you lay?
[Verse 6]
Yeah you're great, you're just part
Of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart
Of this long summer feeling
All the history of boys
I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John

[Bridge]
All the history of boys
I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John

[Outro]
What a waste I could have been your lover
What a waste I could have been your friend
We used, we used, what happened to the gin break at half time?
We should bring it back
The gin break
Remember somebody used to come on an serve gin, cocktails and things
Ah, it's when we were a bit younger
Ah, it's the cutbacks, isn't it?
These days, it's oxygen they offer us
It's just austerity
It's austerity, austerity
Well you, austerity doesn't, do you have austerity?
We're living in austerity in Britain
But, you just have no, no
You just, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know
Okay, that's the unmentionable, let's not go there