Land of John Lyrics

John wears a tie, takes the same train every day

Says life's too short, but it's long

Been doing the same thing now for twenty years

And he knows that when he started, it was wrong

The choices that you make when you're twenty-one and free

They rarely stand the test of time

It's so easy to let life just happen

So hard to catch what counts cos it just flies

And he still sleeps on the left, she's turned over on the right

Midnight's crazy fumblings gone by nine

There's terror now of what the early morning brings

Cos they know that sleeping children never lie

And somewhere deep in God's sweet sleep

Lie dreams of what we were and still can be

On blue remembered hills in the sunshine

On roads that shone as far as we could see

All that he wants

Is that the world just leaves him alone

There's nothing he can do

To break the chains that hold him through and through

For the land of John is a land of lost content

Yes, he sees it shining plain

Those happy highways where he went

And cannot, cannot come again

While we drift on through, there'll be that lucky few

Who effortlessly lead their diamond lives

But for those who had the chance, for those who played and won

Growing old's another race that's just begun

All that he wants

Leave him be, leave him alone

All that he wants

Leave him be, leave him alone