Текст песни: The Finchley Waltz + перевод

I daydreamed for hours in the traffic jam

As the good guys and the bad guys stopped play.

On the radio politicians dutifully opine

Which liberties they’re taking away.

«Please sir, have you seen me innocence?

It was hanging up there on my door.

And sure it was looking quite tattered

But I had things I was keeping it for.»

Guess I’ve seen too many movies

I believe in love at first sight.

My heart just slammed into a beautiful brick wall

She’s keeping me up late at night.

Maybe I spent too much time dreaming

When I could have been joining in.

Pulling the hair of the pig-tailed girl

Was wrong but it wasn’t a sin.

I got lost on the way out of London

Listening to Leonard Cohen’s words.

Diverted by police chasing angry young men,

Who’ll die just so they get heard.

There’s something about this fine city

That will always bring a tear to my eye.

I guess I left most of my innocence here,

I can’t say I remember why.

I need to go buy me some new clothes;

The famous blue raincoats worn through.

A last thought as I finally hit open road,

London fades in the rear-view.

This song it’s just for you and I,

And any other dreamers around

Who know how it feels to be back on the road

Without knowing quite where they’re bound.

Although I’ve seen too many movies,

I know now that you’re not the one.

‘Cos something you said just got stuck in my head

For a moment and then it was gone.

The night was a womb to my headlights;

The horizon a mirror to me soul.

I sing to the silence and the darkness around

‘Till I finally made my way home.

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