We'd wait a while for nothing in particular
Join a queue and leave it when we had enough
Up the escalator and back down again
Admire the view then repeat on a whim

We'd break a sweat without getting the muscle tone
Invent regrets and shout them through a megaphone
Half the point is in refusing to say
Your true intentions before walking away

I tried to open the door
I tried to lie on the floor
I tried engaging my core
Tried and repeated some more
I pushed the rock up the hill
Pushed to the top of the bill
I pulled away from it all

Wound inside a time warp
Believing in the things that I couldn't see
And seeing a lot of things that I couldn't believe
I'd try to stay but end up leaving
and I'd thought
that after graduation I could take the fall
and pivot for a minute and release the cord
For just a second I might know it all
We all forget sometimes
We all forget sometimes...

And there I was with qualified indifference
Sophisticated extra from Deliverance
Pig in the city with my head in the clouds
New in the city with my head upside down

I pulled the sword from the stone
I threw out half of my phone
I waited tables a while
worked on my twelve minute mile
I played a dodgy guitar
In dives and dodgier bars
My hair was often my own
My thoughts were never alone
I put my hand in the fire
I kept re-watching The Wire
I wandered naked a while
Woke up in vegetable aisles
I asked for no-one's advice
Paid the penultimate price
I turned away from it all

I'm caught inside a time warp
Was it back in 92 or 93?
When the Maastricht treaty meant nothing to me
But I knew who I was meant to be
and I'd thought
that after graduation I could take the fall
and pivot for a minute and release the cord
but I let it go

Caught inside a time warp
Believing in the things that I couldn't see
And seeing a lot of things that I couldn't believe
I'd try to stay but end up leaving
but now I'm
dancing to a beat that I can't describe
Searching for a leader or a place to hide
Beware of what you don’t believe or try
We all forget sometimes
We all forget sometimes
All forget sometimes

All regret sometimes
We're all upset sometimes
We fall for it sometimes
We call for it sometimes
We understand sometimes
We're all confused sometimes
We're mostly wrong sometimes
Stand our ground sometimes
Run and hide sometimes
Roll our eyes sometimes
But we all regret sometimes