Saved By A Place Lyrics

A child collapsed to the floor of the station

He gasped and writhed around on the ground

His mother donned her cap

Took his head into her lap

And she held him as he slowly calmed down

As he hyperventilated into a paper bag

I wished that I could help or show I cared

I scrambled for the words

But only came up empty

Anyways, he had his mother right there

All my uselessness had got me thinking

That I'd somehow missed out

I don't know what I felt guiltier about

A few years and change

Brought me back to that same platform

With the suits and students shaking off the day

Out on the street

No bounds, no bonds for me

I walked down to where the buskers always play

And that was enough

To make me wanna pack my shit up

Damn near fooled me into thinking

That this light and sound could dazzle down

What I wished to forget

And so I felt so good I struck up a conversation

With a girl who sang and played guitar alone

But with my broken speech

We could barely meet in the middle

So she went home and I kept moving on my own

Yes, I wandered through the alleys

Hopping puddles and dodging cars

Lingering in the warmth that leaked out from the bars

Till I turned the lock

On this antiseptic shoebox

Mine for now but not for long

What a fool I'd been in thinking

That to me this night belonged

And later I stood with the singer in that station

But when she spoke I saw she had that child's face

She said "The only thing that's dumber

Than thinking everyone needs your saving

Is thinking you'd be saved by a place"