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jackie leven - classic northern diversions lyrics

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i took a train out of leeds in the smear and stain
i saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain

i′m in huddersfield drinking in the slubber’s arms
and i walked through the slush by broken farms

where huddling sheep are turning grey
in the cold light of a nothing day

it took me fifty long years just to work out
that because i was angry didn′t mean i was right

now i’m sitting in a bar alone
with the jukebox playing a terrible song

the bartender says i see it’s you again
i been drinking deep from a jar of pain
jar of pain

[chorus]
i remember once i went home like this
i had my mother in tears as i felt her kiss

now my mother is heavenbound
and her body lies in unmarked ground
unmarked ground

in every heart in every home
there′s a dying man who lives alone

he close the door and he turn away
and the tide rushes in on a fatal shore

i can never get too close to coal
with a glass in my hand and the ember′s crack

but the fire’s gone out and the chimney′s closed
and there’s a round jeer sticking on my back

[chorus]
i remember once i went home like this
i had my mother in tears as i felt her kiss

now my mother is heavenbound
and her body lies in unmarked ground
unmarked ground

i took a train out of leeds in the smear and stain
i saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain
and with chimneys leaning to the sea
i got the salt of sunderland creasing me

i took a jar of pain to the soaking field
and to the lonely seawall in south shields

[chorus]
i remember once i went home like this
i had my mother in tears as i felt her kiss

now my mother is heavenbound
and her body lies in unmarked ground
unmarked ground

and if i was a man which i am not
standing in the last of rotten snow

i’d fall on my knees and i′d cry out loud
to the snowy river and the icy flow

i took a train out of leeds in the smear and stain
i saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain

{spoken word + robert bly}
‘oh lord help me
because my boat is so small
and your sea
is so immense’

- jackie leven lyrics

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