Full Steam

David Gray · Draw the Line [2009]

All our lives we've dreamed about it

Just to find that it was never real

This sure ain't no great Valhalla

Coming closer each turn of the wheel

Forlorn, adrift on seas of beige

In this our Golden Age



Even in our darkest hour

Never thought that it could get so bad

Bullied, suckered, pimped and patronised

Every day your tawdry little lives

So loose your head

And step within

The silence deafening



Now you saw it coming and I saw it coming

We all saw it coming but we still bought it

You saw it coming and I saw it coming

But still running full steam ahead



In and out of consciousness

It breaks my heart to see you like this

Crying, wringing hands and cursing fate

Always so little far too late

It's 3am I'm wide awake

There's still one call to make

One call



Now you saw it coming and I saw it coming

We all saw it coming but we still bought it

You saw it coming and I saw it coming

We all saw it coming but we still bought it



Hey, running full steam ahead

Running full steam ahead

Running full steam

Gonna cover my eyes, gonna cover my eyes

Running full steam, yeah

Now you saw it coming and I saw it coming

We all saw it coming but we still bought it

You saw it coming and I saw it coming

We all saw it coming but we still bought it