Our Forgotten Towns

Lyrics

[Verse 1} Remember those parades and the county fair Wearing Sunday best, so debonair Now only ghostly specters brawl Echo the pavement's hard footfall Torn by winds through empty roads On the closed by-pass, abandoned loads No ferry boat, pub or general store There's nowhere open here any more [Chorus] Our forgotten towns are calling The death of Albion they're mourning Cracks shown in the market halls Dying in the shadow of a shopping mall [Verse 2] These are our forgotten towns Slowly raised now quickly drowned A legacy of industrial jails The steelworks rusting and the concrete fails [Chorus] Our forgotten towns are calling The death of Albion they're mourning Cracks shown in the market halls Dying in the shadow of a shopping mall [Outro] One more community implodes And you're nothing, nobody Just another bar code