All that's gone

I thought I'd write you a letter
'bout all the things that have changed
since the days when we were king and queen
of all that we surveyed

we knew all the coolest places
wore the future in our skin
and we stood outside on winning nights
and smoked ourselves thin

we were clever and cynical
and fashionably bored
we were walking talking
time-out New York

Honey all that's gone
Janey, all that's gone

I used to have opinions
and I wore them like my clothes
but what seemed like a position
turned out to be a pose

we said we were both gonna be big
rock and roll stars
my soul never found a buyer
unlike all my guitars

and I've lost touch with many things
wrote myself out of the scene
and time has worn a hole in me
the place I keep my dreams

Honey, all that's gone
Janey, all that's gone
Baby, all that's gone
Honey, all that's gone

and I don't have a story now
'least not one you'd care to write
These memories I keep for me
Bits and pieces of a life

and I apologise for not dying young
or opening up a vein
and for keeping close the ones I love
and never naming names

to my friends I still sound hopeful
it's just whistling in the dark
'cos I'm down here in the dirt
with the fossil of my heart

now Honey, all that's gone
Janey, all that's gone
Honey, all that's gone
Baby, all that's gone

So I hope this letter finds you
just as well as when we met
ambitions may have faded, babe
your beauty never did

At night when I have drunk enough
and I'm full of hope and wine
and I recall the melody
your voice and mine

we can still be king and queen
if only for tonight
somewhere in our history
the future's shining bright

Honey, all that's gone
Janey, all that's gone
Baby, all that's gone
Honey, all that's gone

Many thanks to Kaper on this one