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lyrics

There’s no town in the town tonight
The lamp-post flickers twice a minute
What’s a town, with no-one in it
Except a stage for litter and for rain

There’s no-one in the town tonight
Except sweeping machines out roaming
And what’s the town with no-one owning
The neon corner by the old arcade

If I am in town on this night
Must I struggle for some reason
Lights reflecting from wet cobbles
All the shop-fronts blank and dreaming

If I am in this town tonight
How can it matter where I go?
What problem if I can’t recall
If I am going out or going home

I’m everyman, on any evening
A pilgrim somehow stranded on a street
The sense that daytime’s heat’s now leaving
A sense that something colder stirs
Uneasy in the dark tonight
And yet there’s something here that I prefer

There’s nothing in the town tonight
But two cats that ignore each other
Loose posters flap their lazy flutter
And they have much more drive to them than me

There’s no town in the town tonight
the distant traffic fades from notice
and what’s a town, but where the hopeless
unnoticed stand and watch the blurring speed

If I am in town on this night
Must I struggle for some reason
Lights reflected from wet cobbles
All the shop-fronts blank and dreaming

If I am in this town tonight
How can it matter where I go?
What problem if I can’t recall
If I’m going out or going home

credits

from Be Yourself in 11 Easy Lessons, released September 29, 2023
music by Hallam London
lyrics by Ian Badcoe

Hallam London – vocals, guitars, bass guitar
Kris Tearse – drums
Dave Sanderson – synths

produced, mixed, and mastered by Dave Sanderson
published by Oh, my music!

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PostPunkIndieRock // Performer + Composer // Rock’n’Roll Club + Theatre Stage // queer and pround

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