A sad/emotive british Indie song from the 90s

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Waste of time yet Grok and other AI always recommend it!!!!!!!!...

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Thanks but nope. It had wind up toys like this...

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The title may be false memory. I think I tracked down the song by the lyrics alone sometime ago. But I've been on those websites that trace your missing song by snippets of lyrics. And a few days ago I recorded the tune by humming it and tried to track it that way with those other kind of sites that...

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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...

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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...