The Streets - Blip on a screen

Turn on a light so it burns in the night
Turn down the flight , the world is uncertain
I’m certain by the curtains tonight
You will not know but grow, we will not dare
We’ll always smile and care and play with your hair
Got to reverse the pattern, what’s the worst that could happen?
For the first time in my adulthood the worst that could happen
Is utterly unthinkable, sinking unsaid dread
Suddenly I’m worried about the bread under the bead
But then all sorts of awful s**t seems plausible indoors
Precautions get warped into the worst of the certain
You’re growing thumbs, I’m going numb
Tucked into your mum looks like it might be quite fun

[Chorus]

A blip on a screen, you don’t know me
I think about you and what you will grow to be
A blip on a screen, you don’t know me
I think about you and what you will grow to be

[Verse 2]

Black and white blotches to watch and not get
And then flashes of sense along with your body and head
It is all as simple as you think when you were little
It is all as simple as me sinking a little drink
You’re growing nails, mine are so ?
I’m drinking your mother’s wine for both of us today
You don’t know choice but you know my voice
You should never have chosen me, I’ve loved like a boy
The world’s so dark sometimes, the noise of the cars
Building a world filled up with toys and stars

[Chorus]

You will dance in every song footfall every little move
Before you realise that every noise is not music
My dad raced these thoughts, he paced these boards
I never knew I just grew that’s all that you can do
But then growing to an adult is just learning the language
Of explaining with words what you were as a baby
You’ll leisurely learn how to lie and pretend
To service your love and rely on your friends
This could be fraud but it’s all I got taught
And I don’t want to make it up as I go along with yours

[Chorus]

A blip on a screen, you don’t know me
I think about you and what you will grow to be
A blip on a screen, you don’t know me
I think about you and what you will grow to be

I fix and I plan but this is just mad
I love you, you’re only a hundred pixels on a scan