When I lived alone Weekends went forever I spent them on my own And all that I remember Is peeling myself off the sofa To the laundromat before it closes Those were the days of discount wine And Cadbury Roses Before I met you I was living behind brick walls Before I met you I was living my life on pause Before I met I was something of a lost cause When I lived alone Life was pretty simple 'Cos all I'd ever known Was living as a single I was used to things that way I thought life would never change Looking back those years to me Seem awfully strange Before I met you I was living behind brick walls Before I met you I was living my life on pause Before I met I was something of a lost cause Before I met you I was living behind brick walls Before I met you I was living my life on pause Before I met I was something of a lost cause A lost cause