Calm Like You.

I had a nice surprise today. I got a call from a friend and we talked and talked and talked and talked and talked until it was just annoying.

Everything's so shot to hell over here with exams and secret library crushes and accidental 'falling in love' and student loans while everything's so great back home with picnics and lemon colored sky and tar roads and keropok lekor.

It's like an osmosis equation. Diffusion across the continent from Not Awesome to Awesome.
I can't wait to get back.

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I can still remember when your city smelt exciting.
I still get a whiff of that aroma now and then.
Burglary and fireworks,
The skies they were alighting.
Accidents and toffee drops,
And thinking on the train.

Oh he was young, in the frost,
No regard for the cost of saying his feelings in moments they were felt.

And if he was calm like you,
Locked up inside of your loops then he'd know full well,
That all he had to say was,
All he had to say was goodbye.

Summertime made promises it knew it couldn't keep,
The fairytale was climbing up a mountain far too steep.
Colour in the pictures with your royal hands,
Now I am craving heart-break while you're making your demands.

Oh he was young, in the frost,
No regard for the cost of saying his feelings in moments they were felt.

And if he was calm like you,
Locked up inside of your loops then he'd know full well,
That all he had to say was,
All he had to say was goodbye.

If he was calm like you,
Locked up inside of your loops then he'd know full well,
That all he had to say was,
All he had to say was goodbye.

-The Last Shadow Puppets, Calm Like You.

I didn't know 'smelt' is a word. Wow.