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You always were a city kid |
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Though you were country raised |
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And back in some forgotten time |
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We shared the cold north days |
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But the simple life was not your style, |
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And you just had to escape |
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So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands |
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On Remembrance Day the bands all played, |
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The bells pealed through the park |
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And you lay there by the "Do Not" signs, |
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And shamed them with your spark |
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Now winter moans in old men's bones |
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As the day falls into dark |
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And it's goodbye to my lady of the islands |
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It was just like this |
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Behind the kisses you so soon swept away |
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Oh I always knew |
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That some day you'd |
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Be bound to just get pulled away |
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The summer sun beats on and on, |
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The shops swim in the heat |
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And you're standing by the traffic signs |
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With taxis at your feet |
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Oh I know that in your city skin |
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You're feeling more complete |
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So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands |
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No I never got the letters |
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That you said you'd send me |
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So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands |
