The Centre, Revisited

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Year: 2006
Album: Foburg

 
When the  
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centre was here you were  
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fifty years young
 
You had  
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light in your eyes, no wide  
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world in your lungs
 
Now they  
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shutter the windows and  
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skylights and doors
 
And the  
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traffic goes elsewhere and you’re  
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dreaming no more
 
You  
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wait in the office they’ve  
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built in the grounds
 
They just  
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tell you the details of  
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jobs to be found
 
When the  
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centre was here, every
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thing seemed to fit
 
All that  
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has been discarded in some  
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dank woodland pit
 
The  
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engine has seized up but you  
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take to the road
 
And you  
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search for a ramp off the  
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map, 
 
overgrown
 
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For they  
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say if a man keeps his  
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knees tightly shorn
 
He can  
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live like they do in the  
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concession 
 
zone
 
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