Round the City Square

Whisper going round the city square
 Rumour grows a tumour in your garden
 Anticipation as the rain begins to fall
 And pools up at the gutter in your hallway
 I didn't want us to end this way
 But the love has faded away
 Chariot hits the wall
 Body language says it all
 It's the saddest state so suddenly
 The magic disappears
 And the clouds that circle round our home
 Will suck the colour from our bones
 I never get to win at pin-the-donkey-tail
 The children's games we played
 As grown-ups we have failed
 For several years I tried to plead my case
 And all the riddles I got back have settled into place
 I found a way to get away
 You found a place called home
 I found the road that took me there
 And found you weren't alone
 Now I sit here with the things I need
 And then I wander aimlessly
 I wonder if the whispering is
 Going round the city square
 And as you boarded with your ticket
 You found home was safer than
 The place you tried to make your home
 Maybe it felt like home, just now and then
 Now and then, now and then
 I tried to plead my case
 It fell on empty ears
 For several years, I heard the
 Whisper going round the city square
 Whisper going round the city square
 Whisper going round the city square
 I wish that I could silence it, but you weren't there