Vini Reilly - Late Night, Maudlin Street lyrics

Winter coming Winter push on (push on) Oh, winter push on Winter is so long Winter moves on The last night on Maudlin Street Goodbye house Goodbye stairs I was born here And I was raised here And I took some sticky here Love at first sight May sound trite But it's true, you know I could list the details Of everything you ever wore Or said, or how you stood the day And as we spend the last night On Maudlin Street "Goodbye house-forever!" I never stole a happy hour Around here Where the world's ugliest boy Became what you see Here I am—the ugliest man It's the last night on Maudlin Street And truly I do love you Oh, truly I do love you When I sleep with that picture of You framed beside my bed Oh, it's childish and it's silly But I think it's you in my room By the bed Yes, I told you it was silly And I know I took strange pills But I never meant to hurt you Oh truly I love you I came home late one night Everyone had gone to bed Nobody stays up for you I had sixteen stitches All around my head The last bus I missed to Maudlin Street So, he drove me home in the van Complaining: "Women only like me for my mind..." Don't leave your torch behind A power cut ahead 1972, you know And so we crept through the park But no I cannot steal a pair of jeans Off a clothesline for you But you without clothes Oh I could not keep a straight face Me without clothes? Well a nation turns its back and gags I'm packed I am moving house A half-life disappears today Every hag waves me on Secretly wishing me gone Well, I will be soon Oh I will be soon There were bad times on Maudlin Street They took you away in a police car Dear Inspector, don't you know? Don't you care? Don't you know about love? Your gran died And your mother died On Maudlin Street In pain and ashamed With never time to say Those special things I took the keys from Maudlin Street Well, it's only bricks and mortar! And...truly I do love you Wherever you are Wherever you are