The Salvation
Army band played
And the children drank
lemonade
And the morning
lasted all day
All day
And through an open
window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day
Pushing the town away oh
Life in a northern town
He sat on the stony ground
And he took a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
to listen
He said in winter 1963
It felt like the world
would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
and the Beatles
Life in a northern town
All of the work shut down
Evening turned to rain
Watched the water roll
down the drain
As we followed him down
to the station
No he never would wave
goodbye
You could see it written
in his eyes
As the train rolled
out of sight
Bye bye
Life in a northern town
Where you gonna go
in a northern town
All of the work shut down
Life in a northern town
Where you gonna go
Make it easy on yourself
You're so hard on yourself
So hard on yourself
So hard on yourself
Make it easy on yourself
So hard on yourself
So hard on yourself
Life in a northern town