Badly Drawn Boy - Long Way Round Lyrics

Sit and wait for the day
Where your life might change
And that day never comes
This is rule number one

All the changes must come from you
Is the second rule
Take a long way round
See the sights, hear sounds
Where you'll go, nobody knows

Been this way since the day
I was born, far away
And the walk in the rain
Makes you feel young again

I assumed you would be my strength
Oh, how wrong I was
That's the wrong way around
How you need me now
The carousel keeps turning still

This one cried, this one smiled
But we all felt alive
Like a walk in the rain
Made us feel young again

With the crowd singing all right now
As the rain came down
It's a long way home
But we're not alone
Life's carousel keeps turning still

Life keeps turning around and around
We keep learning from things
We have found overground

What a fool to believe
I could help you to breathe
Getting caught in the rain
Makes us feel young again

If you go take a long way round
You'll be lost then found
It's a long way home
But you're not alone
The carousel brings you back again