"Waiting my space in the queue
See me just behind the stripe line
Crumple list is contaminated just like the view
Shelter in places anew
Safer spaces turned the air blue
Was holding out for a feeling and a face that I knew
Before the ‘all-new you’
Joined the line and tore my conscience in two
On cue
Deliberately refined
When did you learn to laugh and be kind?
It’s not the first time I’ve been unclean or acted uncool
Avoided dishing the dirt
Doesn’t mean I didn’t get hurt
You always looked more approachable in casual shirts
This isn’t Hollywood
And Holly wouldn’t have done the things you told me I should
For you
Here on the Hygiene Strip, sun setting on a whole town
My freedom went to the wall before the lock went down
You didn’t want me around
All down the hygiene strip, secretly hoping I would see you
But no-one would want to, in a line like this
Must be illegal to kiss, by now…
…and I hate the way you look at my shoes
I wore something new the last time I came but there was no-one I knew
Or you
(Chorus)
….Bye, now….."
