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"What Are Folk Like?"

You Just Don't Touch the Ground (Justin Ward)

If you've ever seen Mike Leigh's film ''High Hopes', this song is 'about' the block of flats in King's Cross where a lot of the film was set, which is now under platform 13 of the Eurostar terminal. And it was the cast iron front framework that made it like New Orleans, but you try writing that into a song.

D major.

From the roof of the building
You could see on either side
Two stations and the skyline
And the city far and wide
I followed you up that staircase from 1864
I felt like I'd never seen a bedroom before

And someone's phone kept ringing
And all the drunks kept singing
But if the city had been swinging
It must have passed me by

Such a long way down
Oh but the view's the best in town
And you know how to fly
You just don't touch the ground

All the names scratched on the bricks

And the rush at ten to six
All the girls out looking for tricks

And taking 'em for a ride
In the middle of it all

There was you and me
How little did we know

How good it used to be

And when the rain kept falling
And when the trains stopped calling
It was something like New Orleans
But I couldn't tell you why

Now you'd never know

There was a place we used to go
Big business laid it low

Like a sandcastle in the tide
And what of you and me

You won't find a trace
All that you can see

Is written in my face

But when the sun was burning
We felt so discerning
How slow the world was turning
And we were up so high
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