Nothing Sounds the Same

Verse 1

The gasworks went quiet last September

Brick by brick they took the old yard down

I still hear the shunters in my sleep

Rusting rails run under every street now

Pre-Chorus

They board the windows with plywood

And paint the hoardings green

Chorus

King's Cross you were a working heart

King's Cross now you're just a name

King's Cross I walk your empty arches

And nothing sounds the same

Nothing sounds the same

Verse 2

My father mended boilers by the canal

Hands like maps of everywhere he'd been

He said a place is only people

And the people all moved on

The cranes came down like tired men

Pre-Chorus

I count the chimneys standing

I count them one by one

Chorus

King's Cross you were a working heart

King's Cross now you're just a name

King's Cross I walk your empty arches

And nothing sounds the same

Nothing sounds the same

Bridge

Whistles fade to silence

Warehouses to glass

Somewhere a lad still whistles

For a train that never comes back

Chorus

King's Cross you were a working heart

King's Cross now you're just a name

King's Cross I walk your empty arches

And nothing sounds the same

Chorus

King's Cross I still hear your engines

King's Cross soft beneath the rain

King's Cross I keep your soot and stories

And nothing sounds the same

Nothing sounds the same