Round Here

My daddy got here on the gravy train

I guess my mama had a real bad start to the game

They went walking and she took his name

'Round here

There was dancing in the afternoons those days

Waiting tables, chasing girls with the money he made

It was 1957 and love felt the same

Love felt the same, yeah

Frightened little girl, she makes a break

Into the ams of something better

Yeah

'Round here

I hear my mama call in Kingsbury Park

Just me and David and a football that glowed in the dark

Waiting patiently to make my mark

'Round here

Mmm (Oh, what you gonna be?)

And I remember my

My first day at school (Oh, what you gonna do?)

And I remember trouble (Oh, what you gonna be?)

And thinking I was so cool

I remember it all (Oh, what you gonna do?)

Oh yeah

Like yesterday

Don't you?

Every time I try to leave this place

Something inside says:

You can do better

Yeah, yeah

'Round here

So come with me, yeah, yeah

Let me show you where I've lived

I wanna put my hands in this earth again

Music fell like rain to the streets

The Specials and The Jam to the beat

Even though I think I've seen everything there is to see of this world

I gotta be thankful that this crowded space is the place of my birth

All that I wanted was to be someone

Someone

Two little Hitlers in an old church hall

Some cheesy covers and those neighbors that banged on the walls

Andy says it's time to show them all

'Round here

Mm-hmm (Oh, what you gonna be?)

Please, sir, we two have other plans (Oh, what you gonna do?)

Please, sir, you would not understand (Oh, what you gonna be?)

What's going on is magical

Can't you see (Oh, what you gonna do?)

Yeah

That some of us do more than dream?

Every time I try to leave this place

Something inside says:

Keep on keeping on and on and on and on

Around here

So come with me, yeah, yeah

(Let me) I'll show you where I've lived

I wanna put my hands in this earth again

Music fell like rain to the streets

The Specials and The Jam, ABC

Even though I think I've seen everything there is to see of this world

I gotta be thankful that this crowded space is the place of my birth

My birth

In this town

Yes, I guess I got to be someone

Yeah

To be somebody

B-B-B-Beautiful city

(This place I call home) This place I call my home

(These streets of London) This place I call my home

(It's everything I know) Everything and everybody

(On the streets of London) I wanna thank you, thank you

(This place I call home) I wanna thank you

Thank you

Daddy got here on the gravy train

Daddy got here on the gravy train

Daddy got here on the gravy train

Yeah, yeah