Lyrics of song From Rags To Riches from Blue Nile

Lyrics of song From Rags To Ricehs from Blue Nile.

This song is on the album A Walk Across The Rooftops.

I leave the home of a lifetime
Like any son
I have hope and good intention

And wandering into the daybreak
I learn as I go
To fall laughing into the water
Sticks and stones are your broken promises
We wait too long to go from rags to riches

I am in love, I am in love with a feeling
A wild wild sky, a wild wild sky
Fences and tumbled down bridges surround and divide
I wear a coat of many colours, of many colours

The sticks and the stones, our broken promises
I wait no longer to go from rags to riches

People are leaving the squalor
They're leaving their condominiums on fire
And starting out (???