Trembling Blue Stars

Not For Second Prize [Dream Academy Cover]

Album: Fast Trains And Telegraph Wires [Special Reissue] [2016]
Author: Nick Laird-Clowes © EMI Music Publishing/BMI

Time itself is bringing down our ride

We’re on the ground

We’ve almost made it

Hard to find a way to say goodbye

And yet the final kiss betrayed it

In the shadow of the world outside

Don’t let it darken down your eyes

You never could have second prize

Out into the world on shaking ground

And leaving all the lights behind us

From my arms where no warmth could be found

Just the love that had confined us

In the shadow of the things you know

Don’t ever think of letting go

No, 

Not for second prize

Time is up and bringing down our ride

We’re on the ground the music’s ending