Return To Yesterday (BBC SESSION)-The Lilac Time

[00:06.48]It was the day before the day before yesterday [00:11.04]When we thought everything would now go our way [00:16.47]We inherited a fortune of innocence [00:21.60]And they took it all away [00:25.67]We travel on the last bus from sanity [00:30.66]Through province town to cities of obscurity [00:35.66]And somewhere down the road it occurs to me [00:41.68]That I might have missed my stop [00:45.56]But I will not return to yesterday [00:51.45]Or smooth out the human clay [00:56.72]We'll face this new England like we always have [01:01.31]In a fury of denial [01:03.62]We'll go out dancing on the tiles [01:06.18]Help me down, but don't take me back [01:14.87]I heard a lover calling to Saint Anthony [01:20.05]Sadly treating love like her property [01:25.37]Only battles can be lost and so it seems we do [01:29.12]But I'm hoping for a change [01:34.49]I left you at the bus stop in working town [01:38.93]Now the service has been cut re-named slumber down [01:43.55]I can see you on the bars of your brother's bicycle [01:48.50]Now I hope you're not alone [01:53.18]But I will not return to yesterday [01:59.62]Or smooth out the human clay [02:04.18]We'll face this new England like we always have [02:10.93]In a fury of denial [02:12.12]We'll go out dancing on the tiles [02:14.51]Help me down, but don't take me back [02:22.83]And all the politician creeps [02:25.01]I know they want them back [02:27.39]And the couturier weeps [02:29.27]She knows they won't come back [02:32.38]And the lovers who seldom speak [02:34.57]I know they want them back [02:37.33]And me falling back into your half term kisses [02:40.32]No I will not [02:43.64]Return to yesterday [02:48.20]Or smooth out the human clay [02:53.26]We'll face this new England like we always have [02:58.89]In a fury of denial [03:01.14]We'll go out dancing on the tiles [03:03.51]Help me down, but don't take me back [03:08.02]Return to yesterday [03:13.15]Or smooth out the human clay [03:17.97]We'll face this new England like we always have [03:23.03]In a fury of denial [03:25.41]We'll go out dancing on the tiles [03:28.35]Help me down, but don't take me back [03:32.40]Return to yesterday [03:36.90]Or smooth out the human clay