November

I dreamed that I was waiting for a bus

In North-East London late last night

It was November and I had so far to go

I was awoken by the aircraft

In this melancholic weather

And your distant cracking voice

Telling me to let this whole thing go

I hear the beating pounding rhythms of the wristwatch that I wear

And I've not out-grown adolescence

Nor escaped my first grey hair

She knows this band just got signed

And tour all the time

I asked her how she thinks I'm doing

And she said at best just fine

But you'll never change the world

With your songs and your guitar

There are people half your age

And they're going twice as far

And everybody wants me

But I'm tied right down to you

When you finally go under

You know that I'll drown too

Mid-November moon has been hoisted in the sky

And it's smiling at me crooked

As the world goes dribbling by

As the glowing burning leaves

Dance to the tune the traffic plays

The wind it murmurs rhythms

Of what she always says

That you'll never change the world

With your songs and your guitar

There are people half your age

And they're going twice as far

And everybody wants me

But I'm tied right down to you

When you finally go under

You know that I'll drown too

I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid

I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid

And I went down to the club

And the buzz band were a bore

Cardboard cut-out mannequins

Singing what I've heard before

It was all so self-aware

And all so very now

The crowd they were ecstatic

Then they all turned around to scream

You'll never change the world

With your songs and your guitar

There are people half your age

And look, they're going twice as far