Big Country - In This Place lyrics

All the years I worked in this place The friends that I knew here, I loved every face I loved the smoke the heat and the noise But the profits too small for the black suited boys Oh angel, it’s coming down stone by stone It’s breaking up home by home Take it away, take it away, take it In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learning grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose in this place All the years I lived in this place The people we knew here, I loved every face I love the parties, the funerals and fights But a supermarket needs the land And I have no rights Oh angel, it’s coming down stone by stone It’s breaking up home by home Take it away, take it away, take it In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learning grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose in this place All the years I spent in this place The children I raised here, I love every face I love this country, the land of my birth How much am I wanted, how much am I worth Oh angel, it’s coming down stone by stone It’s breaking up home by home Take it away, take it away, take it In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learning grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose In this place I will lay my life down In this place I will let you carry me As I age so my learning grows I still touch the vision I still smell the rose in this place