Lyricist : Sam Fender

Composer : Sam Fender

I people-watch on the way back home

Envious of the glimmer of hope

Gives me a break from feeling alone

Gives me a moment out of the ego

I used to feel so invincible

I used to feel there was a world worth dreaming of

Back in the gasworks, screaming the song

Just the beauty of youth would quell my aching heart

Oh, I feel so dark remembering

Oh, my heart feels so dark remembering

I people-watch on the way back home

Everybody on the treadmill, running

Under the billboards, out of the heat

Somebody's darling's on the streets tonight

Oh, I can't stop running

I see the whole town fall

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I came back home after seven years

Wide awake, tracing tracks of her tears

Cornered the nurse to get the gist of it

I promised her I'd get her out of the care home

The place was falling to bits

Understaffed and overruled by callous hands

The poor nurse was around the clock

And the beauty of youth had left my breaking heart

But it wasn't hard when you love someone

Oh, I stayed all night till you left this life 'cause that's just love

I people-watch on the way back home

Everybody on the treadmill, running

Under the billboards, out of the heat

Somebody's darling's on the streets tonight

Oh, I can't stop running

I see the whole town fall

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

The cold wings of the Garden of Remembrance

Get awake let's draw initials in the sky

Oh, I fear for this crippled island and the turmoil of the Thames

And I'll hold you in my heart till the day I die

I people-watch on the way back home

Everybody on the treadmill, running

Under the billboards, out of the heat

Somebody's darling's on the streets tonight

Oh, I can't stop running

I see the whole town fall

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home

I people-watch on the way back home