You Can't Go Home Anymore Blues
ESL - February + September 2014, Haifa + Woodhaven

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They tore down the house I was born in
In its place they've erected a mall
The street that I lived and I played on
And all of its people now gone

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Some was just usual progress
And some, just the usual war
But whatever the cause
It's the way the world goes
You just cannot go home anymore

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All the girls that I've loved now departed
My old friends scattered to the 4 winds
I wish that we never had parted
But it all came apart at the seams

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Some of it was just inattention
Some of it youth that got bored
But whatever the cause
Everyone knows
You just cannot go home anymore

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The pubs that I drank in have kicked it
The cinema turned into a church
The park at the point where I smoked my first joint
Is now welcoming golfers galore

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Some of it was just the economy
And some of it - dwindling of men like me
The refuge of whores Is now telephone stores
There's no point going there anymore

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But my good friend still waits on the outskirts of town
His green leaves - caressed by the wind
The good old oak tree - he has not let me down
I will sit there and judge how I've sinned

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Some of it was quite cruel of me
I'd forsaken the world I had known
Left my home, my sweetheart
and my family
To travel the world all alone

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There's no way that this wonderlust go from me
Don't know why - I have got it so bad
But my home still lives on
in my memory
I don't care that I cannot - go there anymore
I don't care that I cannot - go there anymore
I don't care that I cannot - go there anymore
 

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