A Slow, Slow Death

We felt a chill from the breeze move
 In from the east, London pat its own back
 Those with the means for the
 Megaphone will always provide us the soundtrack
 I started to diarise the coming of flies
 When gloom is descending
 So when it's back 'round again
 I know it's a false start and not an ending
 Some days I struggle to move
 In elephant shoes, unwilling commuter
 Anxiety in my chest, heart under duress
 Taps out of sharpshooter
 Preoccupied now for days, by nostalgia waves
 I hated the first time
 A gambler's fallacy: the more I repeat
 I won't be the punchline
 You on a lilo
 Are an island of the pacific
 And then me, me, me, I am face down
 In a puddle on the high street
 I got your initials inside a heart tattoo
 We two in vermilion, we two a lovers' coup
 I got your initials inside a heart tattoo
 We two in vermilion, we two a lovers' coup
 I know little (I know little)
 But I promise (but I promise)
 There's a slow, slow death if you want it
 If you want it
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 In time will I have to lie
 These memories are mine, not in fact my father's
 A schoolboy hero replaced, domestic disgrace
 A sad sack, a martyr
 We here are common as dirt
 Three lions on our shirt with high expectations
 Absolve this land of a Queen
 Who feasts while we wean a small, hopeless nation
 You on a lilo
 Are an island of the pacific
 And then me, me, I am face down
 In a puddle on the high street
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 I got your initials inside a heart tattoo
 We two in vermilion, we two a lovers' coup
 I got your initials inside a heart tattoo
 We two in vermilion, we two a lovers' coup
 I know little (I know little)
 But I promise (but I promise)
 There's a slow, slow death if you want it
 Yeah, I want it