The Run Up - Portraits Lyrics

I can't join in cos I haven't seen all the best things
I don't know all the plots and everyone who made them great
Starting to miss the references everybody knows

I'm hoping I'm just too busy out with others trying to make something for ourselves

And all the obstacles that get thrown in our way: we come out stronger and later we're smiling

Don't get me wrong I love sitting round doing nothing
But those stories just don't interest me
Always feel I'm being sold a portrait of life we can never live up to

I feel like the luckiest person in the world sometimes, there's a guilt with that
I gave up fighting, I gave up fighting long ago, let those dreamworlds disappear
Everything I want right here

Just switch it off from time to time, maybe we can talk it out sometime
From the beginning if you have to, from the beginning if we have to