Spirogyra - A Northern Lament lyrics

Let me take you traveling Let me take you riding along On a steam train, it's none stop to Manchester Mighty station Victoria The grey stone is standing so tall As the old men, the railway men, locked in the past Did you see that caravan? she said as we picked up some speed Do people live there, or is it left by from the war? Yes I said softly, but the flowers are all gone His son must have moved south It seems that he is now long gone Look at that mine, so empty so bare I think it's a closure, the new gas is cheaper by far And what of the men now that their jobs are not there I cannot say Jenny but their ghost is haunting the air Jenny I do not feel happy at all The heart is not here, something is gone It seems as to be that the soul of the north Is floating away in the air On the can*l did you see those factories there They once made an Empire, but now people buy from elsewhere And as for the grey stone, the dark stone, the black stone Once it was strong, but now it rolls over and over She rested her head on my shoulder and started to sleep As I gazed from the window out into the day Jenny I do not feel happy at all The heart is not here, something is gone It seems as to be that the soul of the north Is floating away in the air