Pound Pound Pound Lyrics

I was standing on a corner kicking my heels

Had my coat buttoned up beneath my chin

And I saw in some girl's eyes

She thought I was making deals

There was just me

And the clock struck out

I was looking for something

To scream and shout about

So I took a train and I went back home

There was no one to tell

So I didn't telephone

That place is just another big unknown to me

That place is just another big unknown to me

The sea made angry faces

The waves were getting high

Saw them kicking down onto the front

And the cars dodged the water that was flooding on by

And I just stood there

An orphan fool

I saw kids smoking chain

On their way back from school

A tramp got reckless in the center of town

He was talking about Jesus as the sun went down

A lifetime of sorrows

He was ready to drown

A lifetime of sorrows

I think he was going to drown

Well I hit this bar

Where I used to hang out

Talked to the guy behind the bar

Then dropped a few names

He didn't know what I was talking about

So I put my money down

And I shot some pool

Beat two punks, I was feeling cool

A couple of girls started to flirt

And I felt really old

As they tugged my shirt

And I walked outside

As they hurled some dirt at me

I walked outside

As they hurled dirt at me

Went to visit Helen by St. Helen's Park

That place used to frighten me

Now all I can see

Was a couple of wide-boy sharks

Flashing their teeth in the small-town dark

Huddled myself in the cold

That old red brick house

I can find it blindfolded

I loved her when I was sixteen

She was an old town new brown beauty queen

Now I just spend my time

Filling the gaps in between her and me

Well I just spend my time

Filling the gaps that have grown

In between her and me

Midnight in the subway

We'd huddle up and laugh

When we missed the last bus home

We'd just sit there all night

And we'd play guitars until the night-time passed

I went there to count some sheep

With the smell of glue

I couldn't sleep

Made my excuses to no-one

Left town

To leave it in the city at the lost and found

Where the steps my father walked don't echo on down

And my mother's voice calling

Doesn't make no sound

And there's no yesterdays

To tie you down

And as I hit the city

I remember this sound

Waves on the shore going

Pound pound pound

The streets in the city still swirling around

And my mother's voice

Calling me, calling me, calling me back

I was standing on a corner kicking my heels

Had my coat buttoned up beneath my chin

I saw in some girl's eyes

She thought that I was making deals