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More Realistic

from Self Destruct by Down In Autumn

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I haven't been in love for days, the calendar the diary says that
I've been concentrating much too long
And in the springtime, love will grow, from sunshine melting all the snow,
To warm up, everyday that you’re away.

And second chances come and go, and love songs on the radio
Tell tragic tales of loss and bitter lives
But you said something that I recall, that I’ll see in no time at all
That fragile hearts protect themselves to breaking point,

And you always were more realistic than me

I haven't been in love for months, and winter takes away the sun
That I’d been hiding from to keep my cool
And lighting pictures of your face, and thinking back to all the ways,
I did my best, but it's not good enough,

I hibernate away inside. My duvet by the fireside
And drinking whiskey straight to keep me warm
And looking out the window to the street corner where you would park
To wait for you to drive back to my side

And you were always more realistic than me

I've been trying to get back on my feet
And trying to catch up on some long lost sleep,
To dream about a life that I couldn't lead

I haven't been love at all, cause years go by, but I cant recall
How you made my stomach sick with butterflies,
And how I spent my days and nights content to watch you sleep and I
Feel like I must have dreamt the whole thing up,

Cause you were always more realistic than me,
At least that's how I thought that it would be,
We'd stay together from age 17, get married have a kid, or two or three.
A house between the mountains and the sea, Grow old live ever after happily.
But you were always more realistic than me,
You were always more realistic than me.

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from Self Destruct, released June 23, 2014
Written, performed and recorded by Thomas McCann in a bedroom in South London.

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Down In Autumn London, UK

Down In Autumn is a Northern Irish ‘band’ that mainly consists of one member.
Occasionally other people will lend their talents to various recordings and performances, but usually Down In Autumn is small, mostly-acoustic, home-recorded songs all scrappily put together by me, Thomas McCann ... more

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