Elephants (Radio Edit) Lyrics

See nah, it really wasn't like that

Memories' play tricks and the old dogs they find that

They really are not elephants

In the room or otherwise

And when the skeletons come out

Its somehow a surprise

Now what comes around comes around

What goes around goes

Dip the toes in the water

Send back the tickets to the show

Because who knows you now?

Who knows anything really?

Fools and liars

And pariahs and Walter Mitty

That's about it

As far as I can tell

I put the water to my ear

And can hear seashells

We took the redeye

From LA back to London

Hand luggage only

Toblerone's' stuffed above them

Old fashions with whisky

They had run dry or rye

John Prine on the headphones

Hello in there in the sky

And that's nice

The things you remember

Life happens round the breakfast table

I don't often lose my temper

Either it isn't worth it

Or I just don't care

I only want contentment

Not resentment in the air

See nah, it really wasn't like that

Memories' play tricks and the old dogs they find that

They really are not elephants

In the room or otherwise

And when the skeletons come out

Its somehow a surprise

So it's a long road

Dry and dusty

The pretty way

I'm not racing anywhere

Squeezing the juice from everyday

If its lemons

Lemonade

If its raspberries

Pavlova

I don't care about the big stuff

I love a little cornucopia

The first sip of coffee

My last days of utopia

I sit by the river

Shoeless in Snowdonia

Feels like home

I take it with me

I want to be at home

In every strangers city

A tiny piece of anything

Means everything to me

I worry less with the radio on

And think more to the tv

I've got a little cup

It sits high up on the side

Slightly half forgotten

But displayed with some pride

It is an ancient Greek oil dipper

And that blows my mind

I own an actual object

That seen a 1000 generations die

See nah, it really wasn't like that

Memories' play tricks and the old dogs they find that

They really are not elephants

In the room or otherwise

And when the skeletons come out

Its somehow a surprise

See nah, it really wasn't like that

Memories' play tricks and the old dogs they find that

They really are not elephants

In the room or otherwise

And when the skeletons come out

Its somehow a surprise