Occasionally we realise that someone is too good for us. Would you spare them?

Recorded at the 2007 Brentwood Acoustic Fest.

Co-written with Toby White on a Wedneday

I think you overestimated me
I’m just a child that’s reared on running shoes and microwave TV
Indications on the state of play
I’m having double trouble, find a way from E to A

it's tradition that I roll around
your selection let you down when it set you down in both-feet town
right next-door to Mr Wanderlust
I won, I wonder if I'll want the prize that you just lost?

I’m a demon in disguise
Reputation oversized
But an angel in her eyes
Gotta make you realize

That you can trust me, to level out a tune
You can trust me, to meet you back in your hotel room
I’m an educated fool
Can you hear the wise man sing? I don’t hear anything at all.

I defy you not to turn on me
You could say I’m better but the fool don’t flatter, would you ride so easily?
I wish you’d knock me off your pedestal
It should come as no surprise that I’ve had a bellyful

[PRE + CHORUS]

Snap out of your vacant smile
Before I reduce you
You’re such a simplistic child
And you’re out for the count but you keep on smiling

keep on smiling like there’s nothing wrong
keep on smiling as I smile along

buoyed up by something, heart's in a flutter,
stepped off the edge started floating on air
this leap of faith has sent me...

suddenly
an epiphone
walking in a dream
and you'd woken me
from the seedy side and a debt is due
I know what I need and it isn't you

because you trust me...

[PRE + CHORUS]