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In a room you can build a home
Plant the seed and life begins to grow
When it's outgrown life inside
How will it live?
And will it survive?
On it's own outside
I wonder if the world is just the same
And does the life that I knew still remain
Journey to the life outside
Return to those I left behind
'Cause I'm ready to go now
Yes I'm ready to go now
I want to get back to the city
Get on with my life
Cause I've done my time
And I'm ready to go now
So now it's time to leave the room
And not for one minute too soon
If you spent 16 years
Then you'd almost understand
Time waits for no man to return
A whole new set of rules to learn
It had been 16 years
Since they put me in the cell
We will never leave
We ain't ever gonna leave the room
We could be here for life
We will never leave the room
And as it all gets rearranged
You find that everything has changed
And there's no place for you
In this foreign world
You always believed
One day you'd be free
And never return so soon
If I lent my arms to you
Would you hold me
And embrace me
Or replace me
Plant the seed and life begins to grow
When it's outgrown life inside
How will it live?
And will it survive?
On it's own outside
I wonder if the world is just the same
And does the life that I knew still remain
Journey to the life outside
Return to those I left behind
'Cause I'm ready to go now
Yes I'm ready to go now
I want to get back to the city
Get on with my life
Cause I've done my time
And I'm ready to go now
So now it's time to leave the room
And not for one minute too soon
If you spent 16 years
Then you'd almost understand
Time waits for no man to return
A whole new set of rules to learn
It had been 16 years
Since they put me in the cell
We will never leave
We ain't ever gonna leave the room
We could be here for life
We will never leave the room
And as it all gets rearranged
You find that everything has changed
And there's no place for you
In this foreign world
You always believed
One day you'd be free
And never return so soon
If I lent my arms to you
Would you hold me
And embrace me
Or replace me
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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with wat CoinXOperatedXGirl girl said "The one thing i don't understand is the chorus, why does he say 'we will never leave the room?'" maybe its just such an important part of his life he never really left it.
wat i do know is this song is fukin awesome live. They sang it at a show in Sydney as part of their state of emergency tour and it was..............indescribeable