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Nice pick 
That clip is for “The Roman Road”, and it’s basically a time-warp stroll: the narrator finds a Roman road laid down over 2,000 years ago, then “overlays” modern streetlife on top of ancient footsteps—rain, chip shops/bookies, a late bus, neon flicker—while the cracks in the pavement feel like they’re “speaking” history.
The lyrics keep bouncing between two moods: wonder/romance (“ghost of the way we were”) and grim reality (no phones/mortgages for ancient dudes, but now we’re stuck waiting, hustling, and moving on like it’s all brand new). The Roman road becomes a metaphor for how we’re just the latest passers-by on something much older.
That clip is for “The Roman Road”, and it’s basically a time-warp stroll: the narrator finds a Roman road laid down over 2,000 years ago, then “overlays” modern streetlife on top of ancient footsteps—rain, chip shops/bookies, a late bus, neon flicker—while the cracks in the pavement feel like they’re “speaking” history.The lyrics keep bouncing between two moods: wonder/romance (“ghost of the way we were”) and grim reality (no phones/mortgages for ancient dudes, but now we’re stuck waiting, hustling, and moving on like it’s all brand new). The Roman road becomes a metaphor for how we’re just the latest passers-by on something much older.
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