[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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There's indifference on the wind, but a faint gust of hope
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At a club nobody goes to, with a musty velvet rope
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Guys in Motörhead jackets who knew him way back when
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Haven't raised a drink in years but now meet up again
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To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away
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And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day
[Chorus 1]
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Nobody ever gets away
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Even the best of us come back some day
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To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds
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Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
[Verse 2]
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There's a rusted fog machine in a concrete storage space
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Letter-number combinations with no meaning on its face
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They won't make these anymore, it's a wooden coach-n-four
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No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door
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No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for its grave
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There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave
[Chorus 2]
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No-one anticipates the rush
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The breezy feeling of the faceless crush
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At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds
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Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
[Bridge]
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They don't throw him a parade, he just comes in on a train
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One suitcase in his hand and an old army backpack
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From the Second World War
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From a Leipzig secondhand store
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[Verse 3]
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Pick the keys up from the agent, everything's been taken care of
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No big changes in the roadways since you've left that I'm aware of
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A few old buildings gone to dust and some new ones in the way
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They'll look just like the old ones when the winds have had their say
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See the children bound for London; you'll all be back too
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Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through
[Chorus 3]
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Come on boys that'll be enough
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You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough
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Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds
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Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
[Outro]
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