Garage 59 Lyrics

With the first click of the latch

He opened the door on the future

Saw the way the sun shone

On the parquet floors

From the backstreets

The death and disease

It seemed like the house

With the golden lights

From Vauxhall Viva to Ford Cortina

To colour from black and white

Polaroids show the decades pass

There was a warmth that I felt too

Safe at last from cradle to grave

But in the shadow of the atomic age

From Vauxhall Viva to Ford Cortina

To colour from black and white

With the first click of the latch

He opened the door on the future

All the optimism of the post war years

In the blink of an eye

A lifetime passed

And with the last click of the latch

He closed the door on the past