My Town Lyrics

By Len Morgan

It's my town, I'm not leaving 
least not while I'm still grieving. 
Here we grew our hair, 
learned to laugh and swim, 
Here we fell in love, 
then fell out again.

Warm fit lasses and brave lads, 
watch them turn into Mums and Dads 
where's the corner shop, 
the beat cop we knew, 
Here so much has changed 
those ten years, just flew.

But I really don't know,
which way should I go,
and it's hurting me so,
my town aint my town, any more.

Can't see where it's all leading, 
looking back and remembering 
The dark winter years 
when we all caught cold. 
I can see it now, 
play by play unfold

But I really don't know,
which way should I go,
and it's hurting me so,
my town aint my town, any more.

Time's a thief and it's stealing, 
all of those things I believe in 
All the mills are gone, 
friends, I see not one, 
sure as night meets day, 
seasons go that way.

(Refrain): 
But I really don't know,
which way should I go,
and it's hurting me so,
my town aint my town, any more.

I'm not finished with the chorus, it still doesn't seem right to me. My story has a man looking around and realising that everything has changed; through time. It doesn't seem like his town any more, he wants to know where all the old familiar places and people have gone. I need to incorporate that sense of change/loss into the refrain. Still a work in progress...