Del Amitri - I Was Here lyrics

Though the coffins are calling I'm not coming
I'm too young to listen and
I'm still scrawling on see-saws and slides
Skipping ropes and swings
Toothpaste and trousers
Watches and wedding rings
She shouted to me under the juggernaut roar
"This is the Bad Life, what are we here for?"

And wonderful world why are you full
Of endless monotony and tiresome fools?
These people that surrounded me
Were damaged and done
And we were as compatible as
Swimming pools and slums
And why are you grinning from ear to ear
Isn't this the Bad Life?
Though there was leads in the petrol
And bacteria in the beer
Though she moved away and left me hopeless
I was writing i Was Here

She said this Bad Life that I'm
Leading is deceiving and depriving me
I said why don't you try relieving me
While she was reading
I was stealing from the library

And sweetness and sadness lived in sin
With built-in indigestion the new buildings
Held their stomachs in
Goodness and Badness were hardly anything
I wanted to love her but she was never in

Though they were taking out tongues in
The land of the gun
Though the sweating was getting near
Though her head was hung saying
I did not become her, i keep writing
I Was Here

Though the dusts were growing in
My lungs and some
Were turning backs on the babies turning blue
And I adore you but before you
Say "I adore you too"
Say I Was Here, and so were you