Cosmo Jarvis - The Talking Song lyrics

Mind the gap, the gap mind the gap, the gap
Mind the gap, the gap mind the gap, the gap

Mind the gap, the gap mind the gap, the gap

So I'm standing in a bullet
Sparking down a greasy gun
And I'm rubbing people's shoulders
But, I'm miles from everyone
And we're hugging without touching
Accepting by refusing
And that sound of awkward silence
Isn't awkward if it's soothing
To the grumpy
Grey old grandma who saw the first King Kong
Is she at peace, or pissed off with the damp
Mocked her joints for way too long?
Looking at your eyelids - if they're open
It's a danger oh my god
I'm sharing perfect eye-to-eye time
With a stranger



One who will forget me like
The stars forgot the day
I guess we always were the
Crosses on a graph anyway
If our eyes do share a
Tiny part of time together
It is spent planning how we'll
Look away from one another

A man with awful glasses wonders
Where it is she goes
As he spies a woman sleeping
That he doesn't even know
And the wrinkles on the faces of
The people that I see
In this clickety-clackety bullet make
Sense to me

We just want to talk
But we are way too scared
We just want to talk
But there's silence here instead
We just want to talk
You can never talk enough
But we can't even talk no more
So how we s'posed to love?

She sit's and she examines with
A screwed up expression
Should've checked it in the shop
And now she'll never learn her lesson
Thinks she got short-changed
So she checks her receipt
But, I can see her £120 by her feet

But can I tell her, can I? No
'cause that was force us to connect
And that makes me a weirdo with
A screw loose in my head
And our hearts are always close to
Everything that they can get
Because it's better to be safely sorry
Everything's a threat

This man is busy munching and
He's loving every bite
Spending time with some Doritos before
He meets his wife
And I can stare at you forever
I could help you with a word
But pretend you cannot see me
It'll never get heard

Practising a speech to himself once again
Over and over
'til she smiles in his head and says
"Okay dad, I know that you gotta work late
And I'm not gonna cry if you miss my play"

We just want to talk
But we are way too scared
We just want to talk
But there's silence here instead
We just want to talk
You can never talk enough
But we can't even talk no more
So how we s'posed to love?

I can see myself in all of you
And all of you in me
But a frightened little planet, most of all
Is what I see the best friend you never made
Could be one foot away
And end up anonymous because you
Never tried to say 'Hey'

Look at that, it's a lady with a pram
I'm not gonna help her, but I do give a damn
It's just that if I offer to
She might go crazy
And think I think she's weak 'cause
She's a lady with a baby

I really don't think anyone knows anymore
When to talk and so we don't
Becaus we're just not sure
And this is why people kinda
Just wanna be alone
And they start little groups that
Just grow and just grow

And they think one thing
And it keeps them safe
Until another group of people have
Something else to say
And both groups don't even know
What they believe anymore
They just know who they hate
And so they start themselves a war

We just want to talk
But we are way too scared
We just want to talk
But there's silence here instead
We just want to talk
You can never talk enough
But we can't even talk no more
So how we s'posed to

How we s'posed to love?