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If I Just Ask Politely Lyrics by Bears in Trees

​and everybody else smiled back

2021

[Verse 1]
You tell me you're going to church in the morning
I'm sitting in the bath letting it all sink in
I wake up on a sofa and I walk out to your balcony
And I wonder if East Croydon would ever stop for me
[Refrain]
If I just ask politely
If I just asked or fell to my knees
If I just ask politely
Would it stop for me?
[Verse 2]
I know these walls won't lean in to guide me
To greatness or some greater fixation
I used to glue my sutures in a Sainsbury's basement
Tear drunk on the floor
[Chorus]
We felt ageless and endless
You were my drunken salvation
And nothing rеally changes, just the faces and thе spaces
Where our fingers interlock
We breathe it in, we pass it on
As we stare over this great, endless perhaps
And my heart beats a rhythm that my lungs cannot match
[Verse 3]
Someone's crying in the hall (What?)
But I don't really understand (What's going on?)
What turns a night from tragic
To a song sung by a wedding band
[Chorus]
We felt ageless and endless
You were my drunken salvation
And nothing really changes, just the faces and the spaces
Where our fingers interlock
We breathe it in, we pass it on
As we stare over this great, endless perhaps
And my heart beats a rhythm that my lungs cannot match
[Bridge]
We wax lyrical
In late December
Freezing cold
Crouched around a campfire
But I always wake up on your sofa
And I walk out to your balcony
And I wonder if East Croydon
Would ever stop for me
[Outro]
If I just ask politely
If I just ask politely
If I just ask politely
Would it stop for me?
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Bears in Trees

Bears in Trees

About “If I Just Ask Politely” by Bears in Trees

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"If I Just Ask Politely" appears on "​and everybody else smiled back" in 2021.

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