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Artist: Great Big Sea
Canonical path: /great-big-sea/dear-home-town
Related lyric paths: 6
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Dear Home Town
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Dear Home Town
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No one knows
What's waiting where you go
Nothing's certain but the fact that you're leaving
Still you roam
From the straight and narrow road
Riding nothing but the lies that you believe in
Frame after frame
The pictures all remain
Photographs of all the hearts you've broken.
Frozen in time
Are the ghosts you left behind
Waiting for the words you left unspoken
Ooh no no!
Dear home town
I never meant to let you down
When I sold my soul for a song
Dreams are to blame
They still linger and remain
In the heart of a child who's been gone
Dear home town
Tell the girl
It's a wide and wondrous world
There's room enough to leave a life you're hating
And the highway runs both ways
And there's seats left on the train
And if you take it to the station, I'll be waiting.
Ooh no no!
Dear home town
I never meant to let you down
When I sold my soul for a song
Dreams are to blame
They still linger and remain
In the heart of a child who's been gone
Dear home town
And tell my mom
I miss her lovin' smile
And tell my father
I really miss his laughter.
Tell my sisters and my brothers
Tell my friends and all the others
That we'll meet in the sweetest hereafter
Oh no no no, no no no!
Dear home town
I never meant to let you down
When I sold my soul for a song
Dreams are to blame
They still linger and remain
In the heart of a child who's been gone
Dear home town
Dear home town
I never meant to let you down
When I sold my soul for a song
Dreams are to blame
They still linger and remain
In the heart of a child who's been gone
Dear home town
Ladida Ladidadidadida...
Dear home town.
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