Lyrics
Now there's rust on the razor
I've done my time, I've paid my debt
Maybe I'm leaving to remember
Maybe I'm leaving to forget
Somewhere I got lost in the traffic
Bogged down in someone else's war
Somehow this place just lost it's magic
I don't believe it anymore
Well, I'm leaving London
With a pounding in my chest
You don't know you've got wings 'til you
Put 'em to the test
I thought my luck would last forever
How could that star ever burn out?
So many things I took for granted
I gotta learn to live without
I did my best, I fought the good fight
But there's some battles you can't win
Here in the shadow of the streetlight
Feel like my skin is getting thin
Well, I'm leaving London
With a pounding in my chest
You don't know you've got wings 'til you
Put 'em to the test
The future is not the way I planned it
The present's not the way it seems
You can spend a lifetime waiting
Playing catch up with your dreams
All those days piled up behind me
One day I stopped counting the years
By the time the morning finds me
I'll be a world away from here
Well, I'm leaving London
With a pounding in my chest
You don't know you've got wings 'til you
Put 'em to the test
I'm leaving London
With a pounding in my chest
You don't know you've got wings 'til you
Put 'em to the test
'Cause I know I gotta go
I can't stay here, so I'm
Leaving London
With a pounding in my chest
You don't know you've got wings 'til you
Put 'em to the test
I'm leaving London
With a pounding in my chest
You don't know you've got wings 'til you
Put 'em to the test
I'm leaving London
I can't go back
I'm leaving London
Jon Allen
Downtown Music Publishing