Lonely Daze - Kate Tempest

Pete is young man

Heart full of rain

Eyes full of evenings

Spent in a dream

Grew up in a city where you master your pain

Or you end up numb not feeling

Becky is a young woman

Heart full of earth

Eyes full of mornings

Spent without sleeping

Grew up in a city where

It's hard to be heard

And nothing really has much meaning

Pete had his heart broke once

He never fixed it

Sits there in his chest

With his arms crossed screwing

Becky had her heart broke twice

She won't risk it again

She don't wanna see her heart get ruined

And now she's on her way

To wash up and take the orders For spaghetti

At Giuseppe's

The café on the corner

She did the night shift too

A masseuse at the sauna

She's putting herself through uni

It's hard work

But will it be this way forever

These are lonely days

What if she could be the one

That makes it better

He looks away can't hold her gaze

But will it be this way forever

These are stressful times

What if he could be the one that gets her

She looks away she's petrified

'Now have you thought about retail '

'Yes fine with me'

'Oh and I can see here that you have a degree'

'Yes ' says Pete 'in International Relations '

'Great

Let's see if Primark has space for a placement '

Becky clears up from the lunch rush Crushed

By the blank eyes

Impolite customers thrusting

Their damp fives

Into her palms she thinks

There ain't no harm in being civil though

Is there

He folds up his job form

Gets up from his chair

The next person sits down with a similar air

Of dejection

He walks out heads in the direction

Of the café on the corner

For a coffee and some headroom

This guy comes in

The first customer to close the door behind him

For that alone she likes him

He sits at the table by the window

Reading half smiling

His hair's messy and his eyes are shining

Can't think what to say he just stares blankly

Picks up his change fiddles with his spoon

And as he leaves the café he's consumed

With thoughts of her

Wishing that he'd got up the guts

To try and talk to her

But will it be this way forever

These are lonely days

What if she could be the one

That makes it better

He looks away can't hold her gaze

But will it be this way forever

These are stressful times

What if he could be the one that gets her

She looks away she's petrified

It's Becky's mate's birthday

They're out for the night

Now Becky's mate is the nightmare type

She'll flirt with anyone

Scream at the top of her voice

But it's her birthday so Becky

Don't really have a choice

He sees her in the queue

He doesn't know what to do

She's more beautiful than he remembers

Then she says

'Alright '

And he tries to say something funny

But stutters

And now he feels like a muppet and blushes

Inside it's the usual scene

They're dancing at the bar waiting to get served

Becky's mate's screaming about something absurd

And they're all fake laughing

Even though nobody heard a word

So now he's hunting around the room

Staring into every booth

The back of every head could be hers It's no use

He stops by the bar thinking

Man I'll never find her

And then he realises that he's standing beside her

He stands there awkward

His eyes are as loud as the bass

And she can recognise something in his face

She scribbles down her number

Lingering glance

And lets herself think

Maybe this could be her chance

But will it be this way forever

These are lonely days

What if she could be the one that makes it better

He looks away can't hold her gaze

But will it be this way forever

These are stressful times

What if he could be the one that gets her

She looks away she's petrified

But will it be this way forever

These are lonely days

What if she could be the one

That makes it better

He looks away can't hold her gaze

But will it be this way forever

These are stressful times

What if he could be the one that gets her

She looks away she's petrified