Alone
The Beautiful South

(Heaton/Rotheray)
Like the contents of your handbag
You don't know why it's there
People ask you where you're heading
You just answer anywhere

We don't mean to be this vague
It just happens that we are
No-one asked us to elaborate
We just shrug our shoulders and be

And like the stories that just happened
No-one thought of, no-one planned
We could have ruled, we could have conquered
Then we could have been a man

We could be ex-husband
We could be ex-wife
But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life

Alone, alone
Half an hour is seven hours
One day is several months
Alone, alone
A month is a calendar
A year can be a decade spent
Alone

He knows hello in eighteen languages
I love you in only one
By the time he's got his phrase-book
The chance is usually gone

And we feel ourselves quite prepared
But quite prepared for what
We always took the lead
Before we actually knew the plot

And you can tell where we've been shopping
By the bags beneath our eyes
Make-up shoulders burden
But the smile never lies

We could be ex-husband
We could be ex-wife
But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life

Alone, alone
Half an hour is seven hours
One day is several months
Alone, alone
A month is a calendar
A year can be a decade spent
Alone

So empty at the airport
You don't set off the doors
We used to feel like chorus girls
And now we feel like whores

Hearts built like reservoirs
Words built like dams
Thoughts built like juggernauts
Our actions built like prams

And when the wind blows into our face
We should be warmer and not colder
Well, what price the charges
On this cargo that we shoulder

We could be ex-husband
We could be ex-wife
But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life

Alone, alone
Half an hour is seven hours
One day is several months
Alone, alone
A month is a calendar
A year can be a decade spent
Alone

And we only smoke when bored
So we do two packs a day
And we've lost the difference
Between bored and lonely anyway

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'Till You Can't Tuck It In 10,000 Feet 101% Man 36D A Little Piece Of Advice A Little Time A Piece of Sky Angels And Devils Artificial Flowers Baby Please Go Bell-Bottomed Tear Big Beautiful South Big Coin Blackbird On The Wire Blitzkreig Bop But 'Til Then Caravan of Love Chicken Wings Ciao Closer Than Most Danielle Steele (The Enemy Within) Diamonds Domino Man Don't Fear The Reaper Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult Cover) Don't Marry Her Don't Stop Moving Dont Marry Her (Radio Edit) Dream A Little Dream Of Me Dumb Especially For You Everybody's Talkin' Final Spark Flag Day Foundations From Under The Covers Get Here Girlfriend God Bless the Child Good As Gold Half of Him Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best) Happy Hour Have Fun Here It Is Again Hidden Jukebox Hit Parade Hold Me Close (Underground) Hold On To What ? Hooligans Don't Fall In Love Hot On The Heels Of Heartbreak How Long's A Tear Take To Dry? I Hate You (But You're Interesting) I Love You (But You're Boring) I May Be Ugly I Think The Answer's Yes I'll Sail This Ship Alone I'm Your No.1 Fan I've Come For My Award If We Crawl In Other Words I Hate You Just A Few Things That I Ain't Just Checkin' Last Waltz Les Yeux Ouvert Let Go With The Flow Let Love Speak Up Itself Liars Bar Liars' Bar Life Vs. The Lifeless Lips Little Blue Loneliness Look What I Found In My Beer Losing Things Love Is Love Is... Manchester Masculine Eclipse Me and the Farmer Mini-correct Mirror Mother's Pride My Book Oh Blackpool Old Red Eyes Is Back One God One Last Love Song Perfect 10 Pockets Poppy Prettiest Eyes Pretty Property Quiz Rebel Prince Rotterdam Sailing Solo Should've Kept My Eyes Shut Something That You Said Song For Whoever Space Speak To Me Spit It All Out Stone In Love With You Straight In At 37 Tattoo Tears The Gates The Lure Of The Sea The Mediterranean The River The Rocking Chair The Root of All Evil The Slide The Sound Of North America The Table Think for a Minute This Old Skin This Will Be Our Year Til I Can't Take It Anymore Tonight I Fancy Myself Tonight I Fancy Myself [Special Features] Tupperware Queen Valentine We Are Each Other We Are Each Other [Album Version] We'll Deal With You Later What You See Is What You Get When I'm 84 White Teeth Who's Gonna Tell? Window Shopping For Blinds Without Her Woman In The Wall Worthless Lie You And Your Big Ideas You Can Call Me Leisure You Just Can't Smile It Away You Keep It All In You'll Play Glockenspiel,I'll Play Drums You're The One That I Want Your Father And I

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