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This Town

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This Town - a single by livingstone

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Wait for me at the corner
Where we used to meet
In the old days
When the 4:30 exodus
Of factory workers
Streamed down our street
The smell of tobacco and machine oil
Hanging from their clothes
As they rushed by
Heads down against the wind
Hands in pockets
Aiming for home
To the hearth
And their chair
On and on and on they went
Then suddenly…
There was nothing
Just an empty street
On a Tuesday afternoon

This town
Is where we've grown
A little world
Where people know
Our name
And in this place
We gather things
For the winter
We pray, we hope
That light will find us
And bless us once more

You and I could just be
'Neath an overcast sky
That covers us
Like army surplus blankets
On a single bed
In a little room
In winter time
Everything will come back to us
When we remember how to fly
With the seagulls who came inland
To escape the angry sea
Swooping down on our roofs
Shrieking, squealing, crying out
Against the tap-dance of rain on the pavement
The sounds of our little street…
On a cold Tuesday afternoon

This town
Is where we've grown
A little world
Where people know
Our name
And in this place
We gather things
For the winter
We pray, we hope
That light will find us
And bless us once more

This town
Is where we've grown
A little world
Where people know
Our name
And in this place
We gather things
For the winter
We pray, we hope
That light will find us
And bless us once more

We pray that light will find us
And bless us once more

This town
Is where we've grown
A little world
Where people know
Our name
And in this place
We gather things
For the winter
We pray, we hope
That light will find us
And bless us once more
.

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released December 21, 2023
This Town - by livingstone
Words and music written by Ian Livingstone.
Peter Archer - spoken word narration.
Produced & Recorded by Ian Livingstone.

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