[Intro]
You can’t just come into my garden in your football kit
And start asking questions about who lives here
Who’s asking?
[Verse 1]
It’s a memory of a café that you loved
But you didn’t have anyone to take there
They had a sushi counter and a counter that did pastries and mixed salads
In Hendon
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old
I can’t change
[Chorus]
A lonely job for £45 a day
A lonely job for £32 a day
Just take it
Things are changing
[Verse 2]
Time to shut up old actors
Time to fix old pants
Time to get fed up
Telephone call comes through the wall
A sunny day with a grey sky
A wonky parking job for cheap chocolate mousse
[Chorus]
Things are changing
Things are changing
You
You foil beast!
You foil beast
You foil beast
[Outro]
Talk to me in the bath
‘ba dum’
This is a riddle; the answer is “a candle.”
When the lovely sushi counters you knew have closed for good, when your job pays peanuts and things around you keep changing, it must be easy to feel like you’re slowly diminishing with age.