Straight Back to You - Everything But The Girl

I was sixteen when the story began

And you used to say come as soon as you can

And I’d leave right away with the stars up above

The karma stopped and I was in love

And I’d come straight back to you

At the sound of your name

Straight back to you

To see you again

And you’d leave me a light

And I’d find my way

Straight back to you to stay…

When I was eighteen

There’s the story unfolds

And I moved away though the house was unsold

And the day that I left, you gave me a ring

We weren’t engaged but it meant something

For I’d have gone straight back to you

If I felt that I could

Straight back to you

To your neighborhood

And you’d leave me a light

And I’d find my way

Straight back to you to stay…

When I was twenty things gradually turned bad

And I should have left then and I wish that I had

But you say to yourself that things will improve

And they never do and it’s then that you lose

For I’d have gone straight back to you

If I thought things would change

Straight back to you

The past you exchanged

And you’d leave me a light

And I’d find my way

Straight back to you to stay… hey

When I turned twenty-one things came to an end

And you live with someone who was once just a friend

And before I left I did one last thing

I came to your house and brought out the ring

And gave it straight back to you

Though I felt no remorse

Straight back to you

And then love ran its course

And you left me alive

And I found my way

Straight out of there and away

Straight out of there and away

Straight out of there and away