Gareth Jones Songs
Album Six
10.Touchdown (4:24)
This was written on a train journey from a business function the night before to go to Cardiff to watch
Wales play Ireland at rugby. It is not necessarily about rugby.
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Touchdown
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Listen to the music: the sound around us singing
Fills the light of the night with the noise
I even saw the people who are writing numbers
Can anyone have sadder lives?
Empty is the schoolyard, reading the graffiti
That is deep in the frost of the walls
Looking for the roses that wait here for no man
How can we all have it all?
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Get down, look down, focus on the universe and
Hold tight, don‘t fight, all the people sing the verse for you
All the people wish that it were true
Mind blow, go slow, tell me what’s the point of this and
Drive through, just to, all the people sing a verse for you
All the people wish that it were true
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Stadium thinking, let the train wander
The time of our lives is to come
The ball holds the power
Wait here and wonder how will the roads lead to home?
And so, we are dozing as sun touches morning
The green will collide with the red
Thinking of drinking and climbing the mountain
Collapsing at last into bed
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
Touch down beside me, touch down beside me
Touch down beside me – a try
