Back When You Were Beautiful

No-Man are a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle Of Man) by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson (the latter also of Porcupine Tree). The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections (most notably, 2006's career retrospective, All The Blue Changes). The band was once lauded as "conceivably the most important English group since The Smiths" by Melody Maker music newspaper. more »

Year:: 2003
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singing songs 
they'll never understand. 
tempo drifts 
in half-cut wonderlands. 

back when you were beautiful, 
they'd smile and shake your hand. 

friendship comes, 
but it mostly goes. 
you mark the time 
with your fading clothes. 

back when you were beautiful, 
you'd pass it off as pose. 

you walk for hours, 
your feet like lead. 
you keep your secrets 
locked inside your heads. 

back when you were beautiful, 
the needle pushed the red.

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Written by: STEVEN JOHN WILSON, TIMOTHY JOHN BOWNASS

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing

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