Same Old Track Lyrics

School ties and blazers, long sideway glances

Standing apart from the scene.

You were the one, who haunted my schooldays

Never apart from my dreams

Common room trivia, free and easy,

Frightened to sit by your side.

Young and unsure, head full of knowledge

Somewhere you left me behind

The closest we got was the fairground one evening

Under a rain laden sky

I paid you a ride on the speedway and waltzer

You huddled up close by my side

And I wanted to tell you how I was feeling

I wondered if you felt the same

Up the cobbled road home,

With the fairground below I swore you were calling my name

And I still can hear

Down the winding road through the fading years

The sound of the fairground hum, and the moon above

We met once again at an old school reunion

A few of us sat round a bar

Relative strangers saying prayers for those absent

Amazed to have travelled so far

You said "see how the time goes, fast and silent

With no way of turning it back"

And the lines and the dreams like the speedway and waltzer

Spin away down the same old track.