Jamie Lenman

This Town Will Never Let Us Go
There's a place upon the earth that has never seen the sun But a cruel twist of fate is where you and I are from When you left us [?], I felt so empty then This is the last thing I expected, to see your face again Did the stitches of your dream begin to slowly come undone? Before you turn around, you're falling flat on square one If you found that hope was there then I could have told you so And I know, you know, I know This town will never let us go Must be something in the water or hollows out your bones Funny, I was born and raised here It's never been my home If they tell you that you're nothing, accept it as a fact Like I will always love you, you can never love me back Did you reach the gates of heaven and discover they were closed? They wouldn't know an angel, if it kissed them on the nose When you ask a hundred questions and then answered all the same We don't want your kind of people, so just return the way you came Yeah, you scream until you laugh And you laugh until you cry And you don't feel much of anything You don't dare consider why And if you found the truth was owed I could have told you so And I know, you know, I know SongtexteThis town will never let us go This town will never let us go There's a boy sat in the prison With enough brains inside his head That he could have been a doctor but he killed a man instead And a girl outside the That just wanted to be heard She's been hushed and criticized till she barely speaks a word And the kids around the corner, who just lost their second dad And you have to ask yourself what kind of chance they ever had And their mother knows her [?] are just a temporary relief She might empty out the bottle if she could only get some sleep But so it goes Aus Songtexte Mania