As It Is When It Was (Live at Reading Festival, 1993)

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
I've kept my head against the wall
I've been this way for so long now
You weren't exactly falling over yourself
When last I saw you

[Pre-Chorus]
Well I always thought
We'd get along like a house on fire
Until you told me that I'd have to go
How can someone like you be that low?

[Chorus]
Whatever you think of me
You listen hard and I will make you see
Whatever you think of me
You listen hard and I will make you see

[Verse 2]
I don't feel anything no more
This state of grace is consuming me
I'm not grown up and I am not a boy
I feel no pain and I feel no joy

[Pre-Chorus]
Well, I always thought
We'd get along like a house on fire
In those days when the sun was warm
I ran in the street where I was born

[Chorus]
Whatever you think of me
You listen hard and I will make you see
Whatever you think of me
You listen hard and I will make you see

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
The streets are so empty at this time of night
I'd rather walk on my own than fight
In a world where I'd forgotten you
I found myself forgotten, too
And that's the danger of reading books
And all the lies of those thieves and crooks
We sing intellectual songs of love
From a stolen pen to a velvet glove

[Audience Applause]