The Cool Change Lyrics

Hello, old friend, are you back again?
I can hear your rings on the pavement
Nice to see you keep up appearances
But must you bang so hard on my basement?

All your plants are dead, balance in the red
But you always paid your way, better not to say at all

After Collingwood, saw you as you were
Shot for Hollywood, draped in dirty fur
This town was not big enough for the one of you
Doors were too narrow and the chill wind blew

Felt it in your bones, rolled away the stone
You wrote again in the Northern autumn

But when you laid me down, sweet and slow
My heart won't fight it
Stone cold, flyin' like a hawk
Skywards

In the city of dreamers, there were so many like you
Snowflakes meltin' in the perma-sun, bands on the run
It was warm at night, but cold inside you

Though it never rains, sometimes hurricane
With you in the eye of them, they'd all whisper your hair

But when you laid me down, sweet and slow
My heart won't fight it
Stone cold, flyin' like a hawk
Skywards

I called you the cool change
'Cause when you darken the doorway
Someone's laugh was about to get clouded
But not me, though

I was the one who thought that sun shined
From your eyes when you smiled
You were the chosen boy
And you chose to ride the wind

But when you laid me down, sweet and slow
My heart won't fight it
Stone cold, flyin' like a hawk
Skywards