Come on over. Could be a good song in their somewhere. I like some of the lyrics and how they gel together. But maybe chords are too samey, the structure lacks progressions, and the opening verse is too vague? is it about motivation? trying to get out of inertia, reach for a meaningful life… the usual stuff? Maybe, I guess. The nuts and bolts of the ways it goes, “down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart”
ADIO (original recorded version)
VIDEO (outdoor onetake version with different bridge section)
G Em C D7
It’s hard to start when everything seems so far apart
No centre to turn into when lovers lose their heart
It’s tough to say when exactly night becomes day
When the blackest backdrop begins to fade into grey
I was at a crossroads, at a standstill
come on over, you’ve got time to kill
I was at a junction, out of the running
Come on over now, what is done is done.
I’ve seen the tears fall away through the bad years
Fears burning holes out of dreams hitting low-flying jeers
Of the people from the people to the people on the ground
Social trauma being so blunt packs a punch when you’re down
Every coin’s got two sides and an edge like a sledge,
Money’s money honey drives a big wedge
See the green bills, won’t take you from the ledge
Won’t take you from the pills
Look how the time spills
I was at a crossroads, at a standstill
Come on over, there’s still time to mend
I was at a junction, out of the running
Come on over now,what was then was then
–bridge–
I thought I knew enough to steer clear of dark days
Here in the haze ways veer through the maze
Of the people from the people what the people say they know
Catch you off your guard and hit you; such a low blow
I needed help needed rescuing from myself
Twos company threes a crowd, but one’s lonely- see
from the bottom of a bottle far too often how the world can be so
grey, turn to get away, turning all day
I was at a crossroads, at a standstill
Come on over, there’s still time to give
I was at a junction, out of the running
Come on over now, it can’t be undone.
