how we ended up here with the start we had amazes me me from humble backyard brawl and smiles to zero on the gages those tea leaves a paper straw a nylon fumble a shaky jaw coz we wore boots and football strips some strange clothes for a first kiss and ill point out the signs the ones that people that dont know dont care a jot for double hedges a single shop that square of grass that we wrestled on i love to come back its making me tall but when i get there theres nothing at all owned the foundations and brick by brick you built a home for a family all those coats on the stand like a cluster of people hand in hand hang at odds with the sods who inhabit them we marked our heights by the door and sat the read through in that september storm sadder still to return each winter hoping to find something more than a building full of strangers the living room soaked up more tears than its had conversations i love to come back its making me tall but when i get there theres nothing at all owned the foundations and brick by brick you built a home for a family oh i love to come back its making me tall but when i get there theres nothing at all fly past the red bricks in double time to find a building as foreign as if it never was mine heartbeat rises as i go down down to that beacon in the open ground a wreckage heartbeat rises and no surprise that weve got hunger in your open eyes youll be glad that you came heartbeat rises as i go down down to that beacon in the open ground a wreckage heartbeat rises and no surprise that weve got hunger in your open eyes youll be glad that you came heartbeat rises as i go down down to that beacon in the open ground a wreckage heartbeat rises