This Is London-Don McGlashan

[ti:This Is London] [ar:Don McGlashan] [al:Warm Hand] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Is London - Don McGlashan [00:02.49]The traffic has gone quiet [00:04.89] [00:09.00]Just the finger-tip drumming [00:12.33] [00:15.91]Of the last train on the hill [00:18.22] [00:22.45]Now only I can hear it coming [00:25.81] [00:29.52]And the moon is way up high [00:32.21] [00:36.33]Like a giant map-maker [00:39.16] [00:42.85]She paints the windows of our house [00:46.17] [00:49.93]With a yellow highlighter [00:52.67] [00:57.01]And a voice says [00:58.02]This is London [00:59.25] [01:00.17]And I wait and count the beats [01:02.41] [01:03.98]And the night fills up the valley [01:05.99] [01:07.02]And the cleaners clean the streets [01:09.65] [01:10.80]And the words bounce off the satellites [01:13.84]And they fall back down to earth [01:17.30]Across miles and miles of ocean [01:20.57]To the city of my birth [01:22.90] [01:29.42]And the inattentive drivers [01:34.47] [01:36.06]And the black ice on the bridges [01:39.88] [01:42.93]And the friends who break their promises [01:45.87] [01:49.75]And the comfortless strangers [01:52.92] [01:56.59]I can see them all a-circling [02:00.93] [02:03.61]Out there in the future [02:07.78] [02:10.12]But tonight they can't hurt you [02:13.81] [02:17.10]Tonight they don't matter [02:20.45] [02:23.84]And a voice says [02:24.91]This is London [02:27.12]And I wait and count the beats [02:29.63] [02:30.57]And the night fills up the valley [02:33.34] [02:34.13]And the cleaners clean the streets [02:36.82] [02:37.72]And the words bounce off the satellites [02:40.96]And they fall back down to earth [02:44.03]Across miles and miles of ocean [02:46.88] [02:47.46]To the city of my birth [02:51.86] [03:23.64]I know you are asleep now [03:26.79] [03:30.13]You've gone heavy on my shoulder [03:34.22] [03:37.38]I carry you to your bed [03:39.74] [03:43.95]Like a boat across the water [03:47.19] [03:50.77]And a voice says [03:51.71]This is London [03:53.31] [03:54.10]And I wait and count the beats [03:56.49] [03:57.49]And the night fills up the valley [04:00.13] [04:01.00]And the cleaners clean the streets [04:03.35] [04:04.31]And the words bounce off the satellites [04:07.71]And they fall back down to earth [04:11.06]Across miles and miles of ocean [04:14.53]To the city of my birth [04:18.57]And a voice says [04:24.86] [04:25.52]This is London [04:28.50] [04:30.77]The words bounce off [04:32.33] [04:33.23]And the words bounce off satellites [04:37.90] [04:39.01]And they fall back down to earth