Surface Of The Moon Lyrics - Change Everything - Del Amitri

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 

So from the well swept streets of Jackson Heights 

To the dockside drudgery 

Every thing's now a replica 

Of what it used to be 

But 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 

But 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 phony 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