Karaoké Life in a Northern Town The Dream Academy

A Salvation Army band played and the children drank lemonade

And the morning lasted all day all day

And through an open window came like Sinatra in a younger day

Pushing the town away

Aah

Life in a northern town

They sat on the stoney ground and he took a cigarette out

And everyone else came down to listen

He said in winter nineteen sixty-three it felt like the world would freeze

With John F. Kennedy and The Beatles

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Life in a northern town

All the work shut down

The evening turned to rain

Watched the water roll down the drain

As we followed him down to the station

And though he never would wave goodbye you could see it written in his eyes

As the train rolled out of sight

Bye-bye

Life in a northern town

Brake on life in a northern town

All the work shut down

Life in a northern town

Where you gonna go

Make it easy on yourself

It's a sign of the times

So hard on your own

So hard don't you know

Make it easy on yourself

It's so hard on your own

It's so hard don't you know

Bet your roll runs out but get back home