Elbow - Head for Supplies lyrics

[Verse 1] Across the city there’s a golden chill A rare holding still As if somebody’s gonna sing A dip in tempo for the castanet shoes No blues and twos As if somebody’s gonna sing And in the moment hanging on to you We’re a bundle of clothes and shoes Whatever we could find You are the reason for this missing beat On the streets that I love And in me [Chorus] Now I’m here at your side We try to rhyme our stride And head for supplies [Verse 2] Way down inside me was a pilot light That good friends tended and fed with tiny kindnesses And there was comfort in a stranger’s bed from time to time It has to be said it just reminded us The brief ignition of a hopeful flame but there and then gone It wasn’t the same and then a rostrum struck The way you read me like you wrote this book And chapters along it’s still in your eyes [Chorus] Now I’m here at your side As though The street That meets our feet might know We try to rhyme our stride And head for supplies [Verse 3] Across the city there’s a golden chill A rare holding still As if somebody’s gonna sing A dip in tempo for the castanet shoes No blues and twos As if somebody’s gonna sing [Bridge] We glide We spin You end and I begin I made this mess for you To sift through for all time You’re glowing from within Beneath an autumn sky We find our rhyming stride And head for supplies