The Starting Line

 "Most of the time you have to go to the lowest point in order to create an environment to improve. Sometimes it is necessary to get to the bottom before you raise the game again." - Charles van Commenee (Britain's head athletics coach) after the GB womens 4 x 100m team fail to make the olympics

Keane - The Starting Line

This town was a lovers stage 
But now you can't recognise 
The streetlights that are daggers to your eyes 
You can't find your bearings 
Your slipping into the ground 
The scene has no colour and no sound. 

You still believe in me 
After the things I've done 
You fear for what we have become 
The ground is uneven 
You stumble from day to day 
You tread where it's easy 
Although your feet are like lead 
And you gotta get underway 

Drag your heart up to the starting line 
Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time 
It's too easy to get left behind 
I know youve been kicked around 
But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me. 

Each heart is a paper kite blown around by the breeze 
Love wont rest till it brings you to your knees 
Some find it easy, some will never even know 
You think youve done your journey, 
Then you stumble and find that there's such a long way to go 

Drag your heart up to the starting line 
Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time 
It's too easy to get left behind 
I know youve been kicked around 
You wanna be lost but now your found 
Lets take the back way into town 
Drink to the bad times 
Lay them down on me 

Girl, I still believe in you 
Your too good to fall so low 
Were gonna find a better life I know 
Things will be clearer 
As soon as we make a start 
Well be that much nearer 
Were too old to just stand here waiting to break apart 

Drag your heart up to the starting line 
Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time 
It's too easy to get left behind 
I know youve been kicked around 
But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me. 
On me, on me...