Pantglas Sky

[Verse 1]
The tip on Pantglas Junior looks black in the rain.
My Mam says it's moving, I think she's gone strange.
You've still got the bus timetable from Cardiff Central?
Let's just trace the route out in pencil.

[Pre-Chorus]
"I will," you whisper, finger on the glass,
The condensation takes the print and holds it fast.
"I'll buy a new coat, a proper city one, not this,
And we'll forget the taste of coaldust in a kiss.
We'll get a flat above a shop that smells of bread,
Leave all the quiet slate-grey ghosts here for the dead."

[Chorus]
And for tonight we are invincible and warm,
The safest place to be is right before the storm.

[Verse 2]
My Da got paid, I've got three quid for the night,
We'll see the pictures, sit bathed in the projector light.
Heard they're hiring down at the Hoover factory,
It's not the pit, lad. That's a different gravity.

[Pre-Chorus]
"It is," you say, your voice a crackle in the dark,
"A different pressure, a different kind of mark."
You're drawing futures on the steamed-up window pane,
A new-built tower block that doesn't fear the rain.
You say my name like it's a promise you can keep,
While the whole damn valley holds its breath in its sleep.

[Chorus]
And for tonight we are invincible and warm,
The safest place to be is right before the storm.

[Bridge]
Is it getting louder?
No, it's just the wind. It's just the weather.

[Outro]
The safest place to be...
Right before...