The Festival is over and the strings of coloured lights    are blowing crazy in the coming wind   One bulb comes loose, shatters on the ground   The empty streets pick up the sound, it echoes like a tiny gunshot    ringing through the damp and through the silence   Water trickles slowly like the feel of troubles only half washed away   Behind the wire the watchman doing nights sits beside a wall of screens   but he's not watching - gazing into the steam rising from his cup of coffee   He's locked away inside   Staring into the light of a different world.       Near the top of Sandford Road, there's a parked Mondeo in the shadows   The lighting of a cigarette illuminates four faces not talking, just waiting   The man in the front passenger seat holds the phone to his ear   listens to a thin voice giving the details   While in the back the boy with the long hair   stares out through the misty glass into the dark streets   and into the light of a different world       Three streets down the restaurant is empty, 3am weeknights, dead-time   The owner came here years ago and never lost the dream of going home   but knows he never will   In the kitchen his son sits head in hands thinks about leaving   Anywhere - just somewhere that's not here   Doesn't look up or see the Mondeo passing outside   He's staring into the light a different world    There's a couple in a red car coming home late on the inner ring   not talking or listening to the music just lost in their own thoughts   The Mondeo shoots the lights at sixty-five   Swerves, catches the red car that spins and rolls   Lands upside down in a crumple of metal and shattered glass    The girl sits trapped inside watching new blood trickle down her shoulder   Turns to see her boyfriend slumped against the dash    as a little crowd gathers round   'Make him wake up, make him wake up' she's screaming    'Make him wake up, make him wake up' and now she's pushing at him   'Make him wake up, make him wake up'   But he's gone   Staring into the light of a different world   Gazing into the light of a different world