Just Another Moment on Your Own

Came up through selectors
Ticket on a page
Older than your draining
Younger than your age
Fifteen miles at daybreak
Impulse deep inside
Shower and a rub-down
And a quiet sense of pride

But fame can take you far away from home
The wind and rain they chill you to the bone
A leader on the sports page
And you reap what you have sown
And it's just another moment on your own

Wasn't for the money, trophies or champagne
A victory for the inner man
An echo to your name
A line bowled in the slipstream
Shake a thousand hands
A minute in the spotlight
In a thousand foreign lands

But fame can take you far away from home
The roaring crowds they chill you to the bone
A minute in the spotlight
And you reap what you have sown
And it's just another moment on your own

Crowd declares a hero
But heroes seldom last
Your private life is front-page news
Until your time has passed
Jetlag in December
Towels and Staminade
Your name's up on the scoreboard
And the ad's for aftershave

Fame can take you far away from home
Long-distance romance on a hotel phone
And your old friends seem so distant
And you reap what you have sown
And it's just another moment on your own

Fame can take you far away from home
The roaring crowds they chill you to the bone
A minute in the spotlight
And you reap what you have sown
And it's just another moment on your own
Just another moment on your own
Just another moment on your own