Wicker Man

Lyrics

I had a friend who came from far away And every day we would go down by the river and play Like long lost summers of the past These interrupted games weren't meant to last I sit and watch the lights go out on my home my growing up town And I wonder what he's doing now And I will build a wicker man and put inside all those things That make me old before my time We found his auntie's holy water and refilled it from the tap 'She'll bless herself with good ole H2O!' he said. Oh god we laughed and laughed We wrote our names in new cement beside the river We really thought that they would last for ever and ever But late one night when walking home I couldn't find the names the place had overgrown I sit and watch the lights go out on my home my growing up town And I wonder what he's doing now And I will build a wicker man and put inside all those things That make me old before my time Born in a booming 'instant potato' age a teeshirt full of youth Discovering sex and cigarettes and oh I know… but it was all true! I sit and watch the lights go out on my home my growing up town And I wonder what he's doing now And if I really have a call, I'd catch them all as they fall And say; Daddy's home…