Fireworks Night Lyrics - New Model Army

All the mistakes that I have made 

All the things I should have seen but I looked away 

All the things we should have shared that we kept to ourselves 

All the things that we shared we should have kept to ourselves 

And I guess it's the modern way - the phone call that comes 

flying out of a blue autumn day and suddenly everything 

goes so and quiet and soon everyone seems to be alone 

with their own thoughts And now it's as if I'm standing 

beneath a torrent of falling water, feeling things I don't 

want to feel, remembering things I don't want to remember 

But we said what we said and we made what we made 

And so I say the things I have learned to say 

Thankful for words that can be used 

We were both like waves not able to break 

Rolling and turning and turning and rolling 

But still not able to break 

And I'm numb, I'm numb like when you've been driving 

so fast for so long that it feels as if you're hardly 

moving at all, my body rigid with tension, my sould all 

wound up like a twisted ttree, the way we used to be when 

we sang of passion and justice and faith was easy and 

celebrated in a ritual of curling smoke, arms all raised up 

towards the lights... 

And we said what we said but we made what we made 

And so by now you'll be further on that I ever went; and is 

it still painless? Do you get to float and look down and do 

all of that? Tonight would be as good a night as any.. 

you'll see the city alive like a great resting animal 

lying in the lea of the hills and the moorland and 

breathing little patterus of fire out into the cold dark 

coming of winter. And I'm warming my back against 

the heat of a bonfire - like the ones you so loved so build 

and I'm thinking about it all - and I'm sorry and Im not sorry. 

Our time was made up of confused emotiongs and little 

whirlwinds and all that stuff we coulnd't really talk about 

but most of all it was sealed in sacred moments like these 

And then it was gone...