Lionmouth Door Knocker-Kate Tempest

[00:10.28]At any given moment [00:11.57]In the middle of a city [00:12.81]There's a million epiphanies occurring [00:14.96]And the blurring of the world beyond the curtain [00:17.03]And the world within the person [00:18.59]There's a quiver in the litter [00:19.94]In the alleyway [00:20.63]He's singing [00:32.20]People meet by chance [00:33.16]Fall in love [00:34.03]Drift apart again [00:35.04]Underaged drinkers walk the park [00:36.55]And watch the dark descend [00:37.50]The workers watch the clocks [00:38.69]Fiddle with their Parker pens [00:40.10]While the grandmothers [00:41.69]Haggle with the market men [00:42.91]Here, where the kids play and laugh until they fall apart [00:45.59]As kids chase and dancing to {this mistakes} and darkened rooms [00:48.33]Too fast, too soon [00:49.72]Too slow, too long [00:50.89]Move around all day [00:52.29]But we can't move on [00:53.98]{Chorus} [00:54.31]Is anybody else awake? [00:56.16]Will it ever be day again? [00:58.78]Is anybody else awake? [01:01.65]Will it ever be day again? [01:04.41]Overflowing plant pots [01:05.04]Fence posts [01:05.89]Decorated door numbers [01:06.97]Motor black beneath a tarp [01:08.51]Beaten up Punto [01:09.53]Goal posts, painted on that green garage door [01:12.00]There's a rainbow on that wheelie bin [01:13.63]There's stickers in that window [01:15.00]Smart flats [01:16.19]Rough flats [01:16.79]Can't-get-enough-cat flats you know [01:18.56]Seventeen cat flats [01:20.15]Rich flats [01:20.86]Broke flats [01:21.56]New flats [01:22.38]Old flats [01:22.92]Luxury bespoke flats [01:24.23]And 'this has got to be a joke' flats [01:26.27]Pensioners [01:26.93]Toddlers [01:27.53]Immigrants and Englishmen [01:28.67]Families of six kids [01:30.04]Single business woman [01:31.14]Look [01:31.57]Everybody鈥檚 here trying to make or scrape a living [01:33.66]A fox freezes on the alley wall and stands still sniffing [01:36.45]Bare branches sway in the front garden [01:39.26]The lionmouth door knocker flaps in the breeze [01:41.87]Street lights glint on the 鈥榖eware of the dog' signs [01:44.78]The beer cans and crisp packets dance with the dead leaves [01:47.40]It鈥檚 04:18 AM [01:50.01]At this very moment [01:51.53]On this very street [01:53.09]Seven different people in seven different flats [01:55.39]Are wide awake [01:56.71]They can鈥檛 sleep [01:57.69]Now [01:58.33]Of all these people [01:59.68]In all these houses [02:01.15]Only these seven are awake [02:02.76]And they shiver in the middle of the night [02:05.50]Counting their sheepish mistakes [02:08.26]{Chorus} [02:09.00]Is anybody else awake? [02:11.52]Will it ever be day again? [02:14.21]Is anybody else awake? [02:16.81]Will it ever be day again? [02:28.74]We start on the corner [02:30.50]With our backs against the wall [02:31.76]Next to the old phone box [02:33.53]Where the tramp leaves his bedding [02:34.81]The road runs ahead of you [02:36.42]Houses and flats either side [02:38.56]Walk down [02:39.43]Go past the yard with the caravans [02:42.10]There, behind the hedges