KIM WILDE - Our Town lyrics

Written by Ricky & Marty Wilde

This is your town, this is my place

This is where my whole world is lived in

Nothing much, and just out of reach of all the city lights

It's a high town, it's a low town

It's get here, come on you grow town

No-one does, but everyone thinks they're gonna make it soon

This is one place I respected

Now I feel it's really dejected

No-one cares and the people just stare

And a man on the box says

"Hey you, don't walk away, vote for me

You'll get more pay, keep working hard"

But they work slow

Here it comes now, Sunday morning

Just another sleepy town yawning

Down below everything looks just like another day

But, in the warm glow of the sunrise

There's a child who's searching with young eyes

Looking 'round and feeling inside he's gonna fly away

There was one time I was leaving

But the folks around me kept grieving

Friends said go, but my dad said no

And my mum kept saying

"Don't go, don't go away

Don't leave us, you've got to stay

Just raise them kids, oh mother no"

No prospects, just projects

Don't try to tell me we're living

There's no real need to try

Can't you see this town gonna die

Hail the new age, it's a rat cage

Join the place for breeding dumb spieces

All stacked up and doing whatever someone tells you to

Burn the place down, make it dead ground

Show the people just what they're missing

Wake up, wake up, can't you believe in what I'm telling you

There's a house where I was born in

Now it's changed without any warning

Cranes just crash and bricks just smash

While a billboard's saying

"Let's go, let's get away

Come fly me, you've weeks to pay

When sunshine calls, but I won't go

This is our town