Mathew Street

Bounding down Mathew Street

To a seagull melody

The smell of smoke and ale from last evening

Acquired taste of plum jerkum

Leather boots on linoleum

Reminders of the things that were once done

'Cause you know I can easily

Compare the things between you and me

And treat your life like a book that I can read

And though I know that isn't fair

Retrospects' a burden I must bare

Collecting stories that aren't mine to share

And though I know there's an answer

To why I view the world with such romance, oh

And maybe that is why some of you might have guessed

I'm stuck in a past that I

I've not lived before

I was running through the street

Cobblestone below my feet

Imagining if you were right there with me

And strange enough to my surprise

There was a moment where I realized

That you were already right there by my side

'Cause the truth is you didn't know

What the future was to hold

And you were just a normal 17 year old

So it's comforting, I suppose

To know that we were once on the same boat

Dreaming 'bout what lurks in the shadows

And though I know there's an answer

To why I view the world with such romance, oh

And maybe that is why some of you might have guessed

I'm stuck in a past that I

I've not lived before

And maybe there's a reason I'm here today

And that's to say the things you couldn't say

So when I hear those seagulls calling me

I'll just remember what happened to you and me

On Mathew Street, oh

Oh, oh-oh-oh

And though I know there's an answer

To why I view the world with such romance, oh

Maybe that is why some of you might have guessed

I'm stuck in a past that I

I've not lived before