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Noooo!

THere is if you want to wallow in self pity and blame everyone else.

Times like this call for Bruce Springsteen:

Missed the first two verses but:

 

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown

Your hometown

Your hometown

Your hometown

 

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed

talking about getting out

Packing up our bags maybe heading south

I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now

Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around

This is your hometown

 

 

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Or from The River Album 1980:

 

 

"Fade Away"

 

Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that I can't

And that no matter what I do it's all over now

between me and you girl

But I can't believe what you say

No I can't believe what you say

'cause baby

 

[Chorus]

I don't wanna fade away

Oh I don't wanna fade away

Tell me what can I do what can I say

Cause darlin' I don't wanna fade away

 

Well now you say that you've made up your mind

it's been such a long, long time since it's been good with us

And that somewhere back along the line you lost your love and I lost your trust

Now rooms that once were so bright are filled with the coming night, darlin'

 

[Chorus]

 

You say it's not easy for you

And that you've been so lonely

While other girls go out doing what they want to do

You say that you miss the nights whe we'd go out dancing

The days when you and I walked as two

Well girl I miss them too

Oh I swear that I do

Oh girl

 

Now baby I don't wanna be just another useless memory holding you tight

Or just some other ghost out on the street to whom you stop and politely speak

when you pass on by vanishing into the night

left to vanish into the night

No baby

 

 

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"Long Walk Home"

 

Last night I stood at your doorstep

Trying to figure out what went wrong

You just slipped something into my palm and you were gone

 

I could smell the same deep green of summer

'Bove me the same night sky was glowin'

In the distance I could see the town where I was born

 

It's gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

A long walk home

 

In town I pass Sal's grocery

Barber shop on South Street

I looked in their faces*

They're all rank strangers to me*

Well Veteran's Hall high upon the hill

Stood silent and alone

The diner was shuttered and boarded

With a sign that just said "gone"

 

It's gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

It's gonna be a long walk home

 

[Guitar break]

[sax break]

 

Here everybody has a neighbor

Everybody has a friend

Everybody has a reason to begin again

 

My father said "Son, we're lucky in this town,

It's a beautiful place to be born.

It just wraps its arms around you,

Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone"

 

"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse

Means certain things are set in stone.

Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

 

It's gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

It's gonna be a long walk home

It's gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

Hey pretty darling, don't wait up for me

Gonna be a long walk home

It's gonna be a long walk home

It's gonna be a long walk home

 

[guitar break]

[sax break]

 

 

 

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For Simon Corney

 

"Working On A Dream"

 

Out here the nights are long, the days are lonely

I think of you and I'm working on a dream

I'm working on a dream

 

Now the cards I've drawn's a rough hand, darling

I straighten the back and I'm working on a dream

I'm working on a dream

 

Come on!

 

I'm working on a dream

Though sometimes it feels so far away

I'm working on a dream

And I know it will be mine someday

 

Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer

My hands are rough from working on a dream

I'm working on a dream

 

Let's go!

 

I'm working on a dream

Though trouble can feel like it's here to stay

I'm working on a dream

Well our love will chase trouble away

 

Alright!

 

[whistling interlude]

That's professional whistling right there!

 

I'm working on a dream

Though it can feel so far away

I'm working on a dream

Our love will make it real someday

 

The sun rise up, I climb the ladder

The new day breaks and I'm working on a dream

I'm working on a dream

I'm working on a dream

I'm working on a dream

 

Hey!

 

I'm working on a dream

Though it can feel so far away

I'm working on a dream

Our love will make it real someday

I'm working on a dream

Though it can feel so far away

I'm working on a dream

 

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Has to be a favourite

Working on a dream 2009

 

 

"What Love Can Do"

 

There's a pillar in the temple

where I carved your name

There's a soul sitting sad and blue

Now the remedies you've taken

are all in vain

Let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

 

Darling I can't stop the rain

Or turn your black sky blue

Well let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

 

Well now our truth lay shattered,

we stood at world's end

There's a dead sun rose in view

As if any of this matters, a kiss my friend

Let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

 

Darling we can't stop this train

When it comes crashing through

But let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

 

On the bench you lie all is nails and rust

And the love you've given's turned ashes and dust

When the hope you've gathered's drifted to the wind

It's you and I now, friend (you and I now, friend)

You and I now, friend

 

Here our memory lay corrupted and our city lay dry

Let me make this vow to you

Here where it's blood for blood and an eye for an eye

Let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

 

Here we bear the mark of Cain

But let the light shine through

Let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

Let me show you what love can do

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Noooo!

THere is if you want to wallow in self pity and blame everyone else.

Times like this call for Bruce Springsteen:

Missed the first two verses but:

 

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown

Your hometown

Your hometown

Your hometown

 

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed

talking about getting out

Packing up our bags maybe heading south

I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now

Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around

This is your hometown

 

Ok How about this then Mr Singe :-)

 

A rush and a push and the land that

We stand on is ours

It has been before

So it shall be again

And people who are uglier than you and I

They take what they need, and just leave

 

A RUSH AND A PUSH AND THE LAND IS OURS

Lyrics:

Morrissey

:wink:

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