"Extra Mile" lyrics

Imagine me younger
And bummin' around
An academy town –
Ghost of campus

Doglegging
Across that lightening lawn
I could write my name on
Any surface

I sent out a wish
To the stars in the plough
It's a memory now...

Season's edge
How serene does it get?
It's the second-best thing to a cigarette
Something shiny against the gloom
It's become my emotional alphabet

The snow's coming down
On the Rue du Cool Shoes
When the gatekeeper crews
Come to find me

Crushed down into dust then
I blew through the street
Where the rainmakers meet
Life passed by me

I saw you again
In the babbling crowd
You were shouting aloud:

Fix your eyes! Stand your ground. It's cool to laugh.
You can ask for the actor's autograph
But he's only made out of light...

All that's left of you now is this paragraph

Extra mile –
Hard and good
All on foot

I threw into a game
That I'll never win
And I blew it
So screw it
I'll start again

I've hung out on some holy turf
But it never comes out to much
I have shone in a silver surf

There's a song can I almost sing
And I think it could be my special thing
It can turn to a kind of crutch
It unfolds like a kind of wing