Places that once seemed so regular
Take on a sinister air...

I look into your eyes
And you remind me of the old you,
And even though I've known you for years…
I don't really know you.
I wish you looked less like you used to,
Cos if you looked less like the you I was used to
You'd look less threatening,
Be less unsettling.
Your sinister visage
Is chilling me.

Fault me for being skittish if you have to -
But the simple little fact is that I don't know you.
Maybe it's on me,
But this sinister air is choking,
Apprehension filling my lungs.
Should I forget the old face
And focus on the strange one?

Fight the urge to run, run
anyway cos I’m done
My home is now a place
That I’m feeling forced to shun
They say you can't go back
That this battle can't be won
Cos once you've shot a bullet
It won't go back inside the gun

Places that once seemed so
Regular
Take on a sinister air
Faces that once let you
Know you were home
Have strangeness now in their stare

I'm lost in my mind and
I can't tell which parts are me

Just co-ordinates and references,
Not a street you used to live for.
Maybe I've just been gone too long
That I don't know what I'm here for -
Nothing's like it was anymore
And no-one likes it or wants it anymore,
It's just decrepit,
Got too easy to forget it.
Just a sinister village,
Not a community.

Call me apocalyptic if you have to,
Ignore me if you want to,
But what I came here for
Ain't here anymore.
Now, this strange place is drowning me,
I've lost what's even me –
Is it so irrational to fear a death at sea?

Fight the urge to run, run
anyway cos I’m done
My home is now a place
That I’m feeling forced to shun
They say you can't go back
That this battle can't be won
Cos once you've shot a bullet
It won't go back inside the gun

Places that once seemed so
Regular
Take on a sinister air
Faces that once let you
Know you were home
Have strangeness now in their stare

I'm lost in my mind and
I can't tell which parts are me
(Why can't I be me?)
Men that once told me to grow old
Have all drowned now in the sea.

Why can’t they come back home?
Why can’t we be left alone?