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Artist: The Nylons
Canonical path: /nylons/smalltown-boy
Related lyric paths: 6
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Smalltown Boy
Read Smalltown Boy lyrics by The Nylons on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Smalltown Boy
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You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face
Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
For the love that you need
Will never be found at home
And the answer you seek
Will never be found at home
Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down
And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you'd never cry to them
Just to your soul
No you'd never cry to them
Just to your soul
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
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The Nylons performs "Smalltown Boy", and this lyric page sits inside the The Nylons catalog on LyroVerse.
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