Everything is better than before The sky turned round and blew us into town The evidence was thicker on the ground Where the Watsons paled And the Sherlocks they failed We soon found ♪ That everything was better than before The wolves in town were waiting at the door Somehow they got easier to ignore And a siren's call Under southern skies Can drown out A truthful sound When we turn things down And the answers grow From the ground So we knelt and we took them in our hands ♪ Everything is better than before With increasingly relative in store Among the winning numbers in the draw Was the priceless haul Of a Bogart Bacall And above all A truthful sound And we turned things down And the answers grow From the ground So we knelt and we took them in our hands ♪ Everything is better than before I don't remember getting here at all One moment I was lost, then not at all There must have been In a place somewhere in between A truthful sound When we turned things down And the answers grow From the ground So we knelt and we listened to A truthful sound When we turned things down And the answers grow From the ground So we knelt and we took them in our hands Everything is better than before (oh so you say) Everything is better than before (I don't see it that way) Everything is better than before (oh so you say)