The Leavers Lyrics

"(i) Wake Up in Music" We are the Leavers And the road rolls beneath us We sleep as we're driven We arrive before dawn We wait in grey truck-stops For the night to release us Then slip in from ring-roads And our work starts again Unloading our cargo The thrills of the night Our boxes of noises Our boxes of light We are parties that travel Movies that move Jokes that span fields Conversations that chatter From one town to another Laughter that passes Thoughts on the wind We will make a show And then we'll go. We are the Leavers Bottles that empty From Dover to Calais From Paris to Hamburg Strasbourg to Stockholm On buses that rumble from Newport ..to New York! We nod-off in London or Lisbon or Lima We wake up in Munich Wake up in music We are the Leavers We are the Leavers Be careful. We'll leave you.. "(ii) The Remainers" The Remainers remain in their homely places Go home, wash their faces, lay down their heads As the Leavers take with them their lonely craziness Our fast-moving laughter Our fast-moving beds And our hearts slowly lose focus Like gypsies at fairs We will meet someone new somewhere else "(iii) Vapour Trails In The Sky" We are the Leavers And the world turns beneath us We're somewhere above you Vapour trails in the sky Days and nights scrambled Hurtling to somewhere From somewhere forgotten Somewhere forgotten We're born out of recklessness The thirst for the thrill We're revelry's children Life's too short for standing still "(iv) The Jumble Of Days" Our lives slowly unravel Like wool pulled from sweaters We'll knit something new somewhere else, so forget us We are the Leavers You'll stay and we'll travel You'll know where you are, always We'll be vague in our jumble of days We can never be sure But be sure of one thing When the thrills are all done We'll be gone The Remainers can try to persuade us, and tame us And train us and save us and keep us at home As we try to fit in with the family life The mind-numbing comedown The trouble and strife All the misunderstandings, defensive attacks The walls we don't dare relax And the hurt in your eyes, I know you know that I pray For the phone-call that takes me away We won't be much use to you dead "(V) One Tonight" The Remainers are leaving their homely places With excited faces, drawn to the night Preparing their minds for a break from the sensible life As the leavers bring with them their noise and light, their wild wonder cure-all of crazy religion In one sacred ritual Unmasked and undressed We all come together We're all one tonight We come together We come together There are scars in our eyes From a thousand goodbyes That was great You can write But I won't reply I won't reply