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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Belle and Sebastian
Performer
Bob Kildea
Guitar
Christopher Thomas Geddes
Piano
Richard William Colburn
Drums
Sarah Ann Martin
Synthesizer
Stephen Thomas Jackson
Guitar
Stuart Murdoch
Vocals
Ben H. Allen
Programming
DAVID McGOWAN
Bass Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Chris Geddes
Songwriter
Richard William Colburn
Songwriter
Sarah Ann Martin
Songwriter
Stevie Jackson
Composer
Stuart Murdoch
Songwriter
DAVID McGOWAN
Writer
KILDEA BOBBY
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Ben H. Allen
Producer
Jason Kingsland
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
Come and steal my thoughts away
Thief of my identity
I was holding on to decency reality
Come and take me for a while
Up to your abundant pace
I'll be a sidecar if you want to race born to race
Put your hand on mine
And take me from this tired ride
Take me from this early night
From the sea and rain and countryside
If you talk to me, then soon
I'll be your accomplice in words
And we will talk only in verse
Talk only in verse
I, I will leave the ones I love
Leave them for the years to come
Even though I may be doing wrong, doing wrong
I will follow in your steps
Walk out to the station cold
Buy a ticket and then slowly go, slowly go
In this place and time
Easy is the first escape
I got money, I need no disguise
I'm a citizen and city-wise
In this time and place
There is no one who will shoot you down
There's no one who will take a girl
And tell her she can't have the world
You constantly struggle for self-improvement
You have the ability to analyse and solve any problem
You are heading in the right direction
Your mind is creative, original and alert
Boy, you don't know what you want
It isn't what you think it is
All the dreams and guilt and loneliness, loneliness
Boy, if we were to be friends
Subtle is the art required
To draw the evil from this lonely pyre, lonely pyre
Take this hand from me
And guide me round your tools of work
Fashion me into your junior clerk
Let me live in shadows of your words
When things get tough for you
As they did when you came up through the ranks
You can borrow from my faith, from my faith
Take this hand from me
And guide me round your tools of work
Fashion me into your junior clerk
Let me live in shadows of your words
When things get tough for you
As they did when you came up through the ranks
You can borrow from my faith, from my faith
From my faith, from my faith
From my faith, from my faith
From my faith, from my faith
From my faith, from my faith
Written by: Chris Geddes, DAVID McGOWAN, KILDEA BOBBY, Richard William Colburn, Sarah Ann Martin, Stevie Jackson, Stuart Murdoch