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You Woke Up My Neighbourhood Tab

by Billy Bragg


You Woke Up my Neighbourhood

                              
As I wait for sleep to drag me under
                              
In the evening gloom I sit and wonder
                              
The words I should have said to you
                           
The things I always meant to do
                   
The bad dreams that all came true

             
You woke up my neighbourhood
                         
Night after night we would row
             
You woke up my neighbourhood

Things and pretty quiet round here now

When I think of how we were together
I know we couldn't be like that forever
Beneath the Seven Sister stars
The night we let it go too far
I slept out in the car

You woke up my neighbourhood
Night after night we would row
You woke up my neighbourhood
Things and pretty quiet round here now

                                         
I remember skipping on the porch till it grew cold
                                     
I remember feeling like I was eight years old

Somersaults across the lawn
Singing dancing up till dawn
Every now and then we'd have a row
You woke up my neighbourhood
Things and pretty quiet round here now

You woke up my neighbourhood
Night after night we would row
You woke up my neighbourhood
Things are pretty quiet round here now
            
Around here now