Return to Yesterday

Lyrics

[Verse 1] It was the day before the day before yesterday When we thought everything would now go our way We inherited a fortune of innocence And they took it all away [Verse 2] We travel on the last bus from sanity Through province town to cities of obscurity And some way down the road it occurs to me That I, I might have missed my stop [Chorus] But I will not return to yesterday (Ba-ba-da-da-da-da) Or smooth out the human clay We'll face this new England like we always have In a fury of denial We'll go out dancing on the tiles Help me down, but don't take me back [Verse 3] I heard a lover calling to Saint Anthony Sadly treating love like her property Only battles can be lost, so it seems we do But I'm hopin' for a change [Verse 4] I left you at the bus stop in working town Now the service has been cut, renamed Slumberdown I can see you on the bars of your brother's bicycle Now I hope you're not alone [Chorus] But I will not return to yesterday (Ba-ba-da-da-da-da) Or smooth out the human clay We'll face this new England like we always have In a fury of denial We'll go out dancing on the tiles Help me down, but don't take me back [Bridge] And all the politician creeps, I know they want them back And the couturier weeps, she knows they won't come back And the lovers who seldom speak, I know they want them back And me falling back into your half-term kisses [Chorus] No, I will not return to yesterday (Ba-ba-da-da-da-da) Or smooth out the human clay We'll face this new England like we always have In a fury of denial We'll go out dancing on the tiles (Help me down) Help me down, but don't take me back Return to yesterday (Ba-ba-da-da-da-da) Or smooth out the human clay We'll face this new England like we always have In a fury of denial We'll go out dancing on the tiles (Help me down) Help me down, but don't take me back (Down, down, down, down) Return to yesterday (Ba-ba-da-da-da-da) Or smooth out the human clay We'll face this new England