Del Amitri - Surface of the Moon lyrics

Snow in a soulless city covers up
The cracks in the road
As a wastrel buys her cigarettes
And wipes her pretty nose
Like a part-time Elvis imitator these
Streets I knew so well
Have been pasted beyond recognition
With a temporary smell

Now the midnight train eases
Out leaving everyone marooned
And without her it might as well
Be the surface of the moon

From the well-swept streets of Jackson
Heights to the dockside drudgery
Everything's now a replica of what
It used to be
And since they tarted up the trenches
And painted the bridges blue
It seems less like a home to me
Than just a place they bury you
Now we're lit up like a cathedral
In our frozen concrete ruin
And without her it might as well
Be the surface of the moon

So I need her and I love her that is true
But I'm stuck here like some shipwreck
Still holding on to you
So when they beat out the tramps
And patch up the slums
Everything will be fine
There'll be a new facade for
Us to hide behind

So on the ancient trails of our coupling
In the places we used to meet
I am amazed by the lack of memories
That I thought would flood through me
And the riverside where we first
Kissed has now been reduced
To a phoney old world market
Where only shoppers get seduced

Now your arms embrace me strangely
In your unfamiliar room
And for all I care it might as
Well be the surface of the moon
Yeah for all I care it might as
Well be the surface of the moon