Lyrics:

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Main Street

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I was born by the theatre down on Main Street

A stone’s throw from where workers would meet as they poured out from the steel mills

Dead on their feet

I was born by the theatre down on Main Street

Across the road from the snooker hall and the poor souls sleeping on shop front floors

Down on Main Street

 

I met my father down on Main Street

Shared a drink where the workers meet when he’d been laid off from the steel mills

I was just seventeen

He said ‘Son’

Don’t get trapped in these bars down here on Main Street

The tap side keeps most guys blind whilst they’re waiting for providence to come and save them

Down on Main Street

 

He said ‘Son’

I dream you don’t end up like me

Cos somewhere, somehow, I forgot who I wanted to be

I’ve faced that blast furnace since ‘72

Paid my dues since the day after leaving school

And this dirt under my fingernails is my only badge of honour

Yet confronts me with my failures and all that I can’t offer

These streets rip the bones from your skin

A junkyard of broken hearts since the recession hit

At least you get a chance to get as far as I did

If stay

Cos it will never change

Down here on Main Street

 

These days I stare at the theatre down on Main Street

A stone’s throw from where workers would meet, it’s been run down since it shut down back in ‘16

In the shadow of that old theatre down on Main Street

I cross the road to the snooker hall and the poor souls sleeping on shop front floors

And take my seat 

And my father’s dream

 

From the cradle to the grave

It will never change

Down here on Main Street