The Clientele — When You and I Were Young lyrics

Lyrics

when you &I were young
we would press our white faces from the car
&the rain on the windows would run through the gathering dark
&the l&posts shone &dogs would run into the dying frame
where the park was glowing dimly through the silence of the lanes
&the radiators hum rose above the falling leaves
where so fragile &so young you had drifted into sleep
I’ve been for a walk
&every face I see seems to be mine
night-time comes
the birds have flown
a fever glows in every line
I love this season
this weary night
the flint the dreams the silent pines
the eeriness
is in the feeling
that I have finished everything
&a child from the school was running back to her car
&her white face cried she was deaf &afraid of the dark
&the whispering house grew still as we stared into the night
in the garden &the l&s &the window’s fading light
&though Christmas was the same, we had seen another year
turning softly through the flames