Flicking through my wardrobe but all my clothes are dirty I left my fashion sense behind when I was thirteen I really hope she don't mind that I'm looking like a mess It'll be too much if I dress to impress Met her at a gig a mate of mine was playing It was loud dark and dusty I couldn't hear what she was saying I knew she was a friend of a friend I'd seen her before And everytime we spoke she always left me craving more I don't wanna get sober yet In a haze ever since we met Is it the cider or the cigarettes I'm struck by the thought of you I sent her a link to my music Why the hell did I do that It's so embarrassing man I always act like a prat She didn't mind though, she said it was alright And asked if I fancied a drink then tomorrow night Now we're crammed in the corner of a sunken old bar The walls ooze with crimson and everything is far away What if I run out of things I wanna say There's only so many words and only so many ways they fit together Maybe we fit together you and I Or maybe you'll just be another fleeting passerby Either way we'll both be crawling ‘round these concrete bends So why don't we just take a gamble where this story ends Chorus repeats Drank so much I hardly remember But I do know my chest got tighter Every time I saw your face Every time I saw your grace The everyday kind that lifts you out of this place to a better one I couldn't describe in a hundred songs The way I clambered home giddy and foolish and eager I'll be exactly the same next time I see her I don't wanna get sober yet In a haze ever since we met Is it the cider or the cigarettes I'm struck by the thought of you I don't wanna get sober yet In a haze ever since we met Is it the cider or the cigarettes I'm struck by the thought of you

V1: The student bar, a wonderful web of contradictions Where bright eyes and tired lips spin their own fictions That's where we met in the depths of last night, On a hazy rubble of spilt beer and vivid light You laughed when I wrote that down in my notes app ‘Cos no one talks like that I need to strip it back Now you thought I was just another pretentious writer And I thought you were just another naive fighter We grinned giddily ‘cos we both knew we were so see-through But there was something so forgiving ‘bout the look of you So I spent the night in your garden made of stone And we watched the sprawling city crackle and moan Chorus: Will you go, lassie go And we’ll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie go V2: Now look there at the end of your garden in between the stones See that skinny plant as it struggles on its own Well the shape of it reminds me of my much younger days Clambering over earth to watch the sticky stems sway So I wonder over, and feel that sweet scent of wild thyme Wrap itself around my chest, try my best not to laugh at this sight So far in to city lines You catch my silly gaze and pour out another wine Chorus: Will you go, lassie go And we’ll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie go Bridge: Even three feet of concrete On thick streets of donner meat Couldn't stop the wild weeds sprouting up I pray I never forget The taste and the touch Of the beautiful things Growing around us (x2) Chorus (vox+piano): Will you go, lassie go And we’ll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie go Outro: Ad-libs and violin

One day I decided I was a man I threw away my toys and tried My best to understand manly things Like how to hold in tears And how to push back all of your fears Behind your gritted teeth We were little soldiers who Wouldnt dare make a sound We were laughing clowns With eyes darting around Desperate not to be found I thought i had every single answer But couldn't tell my I loved her Until she got cancer It's such a cruel comedy What a twisted world I could objectify girls before I could even speak properly Even now I can’t talk openly With the people closest to me Kill two birds with one stone Watch the two of us falling down Your silence suffocates me and We’ll both drown Kill two birds with one stone Watch the two of us falling down Your silence suffocates me and We’ll both drown I choked on the words I never spoke ‘Till I could barely breathe Just so you'd see me as a man Other boys like me Swallowed too many tears Until their fears rotted into rage Meanwhile the girls were Looking both ways Over their shoulders Clutching keys as the sunset Building a street-wise mindset Wondering where all their time went We fell into that same dichotomy Just like our parents had You know if you cry You ain’t one of the lads Kill two birds with one stone Watch the two of us falling down Your silence suffocates me and We’ll both drown Kill two birds with one stone Watch the two of us falling down Your silence suffocates me and We’ll both drown

The day the school burned down Was the day I turned 21 Far too late to bring me joy But it felt like I had won So I went to see the remnants Stared cooly like a boy And saw with my own eyes Schools could actually be destroyed The policeman looked at me sternly And he told me he was appalled I said nothing, as the rain Turned the ash to thick gruel I thought of you And of everything that we’d been And I was so glad that it could Never be seen Dropped my juice on the floor When the school burned down Not the same as before When the school burned down No need to settle the score When the school burned down There’s no shame anymore After the school burned down In my mind we were ten feet tall Really we were barely 5’8 Spoke holy words between Thatchers gold crates We grew up far too quickly Rolled our first spliffs at 13 And hid all of our thoughts behind A white blank screen A long perpetual winter Of house parties and powder Thought it would chase our ghosts away It only did make them louder We learnt to hide together And learnt to lie together But I'm ready to let all that go I forgive us all bro Dropped my juice on the floor When the school burned down Not the same as before When the school burned down No need to settle the score When the school burned down There’s no shame anymore After the school burned down Burn your school to the ground Burn your office burn it down Burn your school to the ground Burn your office burn it down Burn your school to the ground Burn your office burn it down Burn your school to the ground Burn your office burn it down I’m not who I was anymore And I don't need to be You’re not gonna hold me down I set those memories free Dropped my juice on the floor When the school burned down Not the same as before When the school burned down No need to settle the score When the school burned down There’s no shame anymore After the school burned down Dropped my juice on the floor When the school burned down Not the same as before When the school burned down No need to settle the score When the school burned down There’s no shame anymore After the school burned down The day the school burned down Was the day I turned 21 Far too late to bring me joy But it felt like I had won And truth be told What will be will be But when they find the kid who did it They'll find me