A sad/emotive british Indie song from the 90s

[albie]

But really good. I taped it off the radio, probably radio 1 because that's all I listened to.

It's a male singer and very ballady but still indie sounding. I could sing it if it helped, but the words fail me. The only lyric I recall is something like "things will be better when we...

[albie]

I saw this when I was, oooh, not sure. Maybe around 1980's to 1990's.

It involved wind up toys as the main characters. They lived in a wood and these little wind up toys would walk through or across the grass where there was a small town, their size. The main character was a male with...