You wrote your life upon the pages,
Of a book no one has read,
You dreamed your dreams upon the stage,
Of a theatre in your head.
Farewell your life in the dusty streets,
Of a town you used to call your home,
The dead-end streets that gave to you,
All you’ve ever known.

Goodbye my town, and the Friday nights,
And the girl I left behind,
Goodbye, my friend is all I say,
Who knows when we’ll meet again?

I read your future in a book,
That sells all over the world.
Was it hard to leave your home?
I guess I’ll never know.
You held my hand and I heard you cry,
In the Cambridge Arms that night.
I was a girl you should never have known,
An ally in the fight.

Goodbye my town, and the Friday nights,
And the girl I left behind,
Goodbye, my friend is all I say,
We’ll meet again someday…

1993
Blyth Services, Great North Road

Sleeve Notes:

This rounds off the first half of the rather lengthy full album. This has actually remained almost exactly how I conceived it when I wrote it, a piano driven ballad. and it came together really quickly when I started recording it. I did have someone in mind when I wrote it – someone I spent quite a lot of time with in my last couple of weeks before leaving Cambridge (perhaps not the ideal thing to have done), but it is as always a bit of a composite story.  When in sequence some of the other imagery will make sense.

For the gear heads… This uses the wonderful free Addictive Keys Grand Piano VST from XLN courtesy of Focusrite Plugin Collective, the Redwood R3 and Stagg Fretless.

For Debbie; I know you had some hard times later on, and I wonder if you made it too.