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28 (Unreleased)

The city is restless tonight
As we all sleep
It's making plans for tomorrow
That none of us can keep

It's lights shine so high
Across the sleeping roads
While the world is laughing
At what we hold close
Have you just found what you just lost
All those memories of everything
You can't laugh or cry tomorrow
For what yesterday will bring

Sleeping soft in what we share
The moon dances on the window pane
Feel so safe so insecure
Don't want to have these thoughts again

Reach out to touch the parchment wall
To prove that I can feel
Last week the radio spoke to me
Saying: your life is fake only your plans are real

All the pictures in the album
Melting into one of you
Showing that who you are to me
Is worth more than who you screw

So when I wake up tomorrow
I won't judge you by them
I'll close my eyes to their surprise
And see you, not condemn


January 1988, London.