Leeds Road 3am Lyrics - New Model Army

The Festival is over and the strings of coloured lights 

are blowing crazy in the coming wind 

One bulb comes loose, shatters on the ground 

The empty streets pick up the sound, it echoes like a tiny gunshot 

ringing through the damp and through the silence 

Water trickles slowly like the feel of troubles only half washed away 

Behind the wire the watchman doing nights sits beside a wall of screens 

but he's not watching - gazing into the steam rising from his cup of coffee 

He's locked away inside 

Staring into the light of a different world. 

Near the top of Sandford Road, there's a parked Mondeo in the shadows 

The lighting of a cigarette illuminates four faces not talking, just waiting 

The man in the front passenger seat holds the phone to his ear 

listens to a thin voice giving the details 

While in the back the boy with the long hair 

stares out through the misty glass into the dark streets 

and into the light of a different world 

Three streets down the restaurant is empty, 3am weeknights, dead-time 

The owner came here years ago and never lost the dream of going home 

but knows he never will 

In the kitchen his son sits head in hands thinks about leaving 

Anywhere - just somewhere that's not here 

Doesn't look up or see the Mondeo passing outside 

He's staring into the light a different world 

There's a couple in a red car coming home late on the inner ring 

not talking or listening to the music just lost in their own thoughts 

The Mondeo shoots the lights at sixty-five 

Swerves, catches the red car that spins and rolls 

Lands upside down in a crumple of metal and shattered glass 

The girl sits trapped inside watching new blood trickle down her shoulder 

Turns to see her boyfriend slumped against the dash 

as a little crowd gathers round 

'Make him wake up, make him wake up' she's screaming 

'Make him wake up, make him wake up' and now she's pushing at him 

'Make him wake up, make him wake up' 

But he's gone 

Staring into the light of a different world 

Gazing into the light of a different world