Great Expectations

By Elbow

On Leaders of the Free World

Released on September 27, 2005

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[Verse 1]

And if it rains all day

Call on you, I'll call on you

Like I used to

Slide down beside and wrap you in stories

Tailored entirely for you

I'll remind you

We exchanged a vow

I love you, I always will


[Chorus]

(Ooh) A call girl with yesterday eyes was our witness and priest

(Ooh) Stockport Supporters' Club kindly supplied us a choir

(Ooh) Your vow was your smile as we move down the aisle of the last bus home

And this is where I go

Just when it rains


[Verse 2]

Blinking and stoned, rain in your hair

You only smoke 'cause it's something to share

Singing, "Bring on the night" (I love you), "To have and to hold" (I always will)

The sodium light turning silver to gold


[Chorus]

(Ooh) Spitfire thin and strung like a violin, I was

(Ooh) Yours was the face with a grace from a different age

(Ooh) But you were the sun in my Sunday morning

(Ooh) You were the sun in my Sunday morning telling me never to go

So I'll live on the smile and move down the aisle of the last bus home

And if you're running late

This is where I'll go

Know I'll always wait