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This Town

from Work in Progress by Pete Brazier

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This Town

Verse 1
This town, this bundle of towns
Confuse me, diffuse me and my inner fight
Leave me mourning the missing light
“Hey” I say to them, “don’t you want to be?”
They say “no sir not me”

Verse 2
This town, this bundle of frowns
Bungalow crowns and every kingdom cracks,
Under the strain of a new idea
Don’t you want to be something?
No sir, no sir not me

There has to be a reason to be here
Something more than everything with chips
The tacky bars and the hen nights, the bitch fights under the streetlights
There has to be a bigger plan than this

Chorus
Across the water we hear a whisper
Across the water we hear hope
Take a look beneath the surface
Put you ear to the ground
Across hills we feel the movement
Across the days the tale is told
Put your hand to the wheel
And drive the future home
And drive the future home
And drive the future home

Verse 3
This bay, this meaningless stay
It takes the biscuit and the remains of the day
It throws caution to a wind that never blows
Such beauty with no spirit
Like a long dead Pharaoh or a valley of bones

There has to be a reason to be here
Something more than Free Church politics
The companies and the factories, the hotels and the motels
There has to be a deeper wage to earn
There has to be a spirit still that keeps us here
Something more than “we can’t be arsed to move”
The local bar, Cinema or the neon lights beneath your car
There has to be a brighter light that burns

Repeat Chorus

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from Work in Progress, released January 16, 2012

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Pete Brazier Leeds, UK

Pete Brazier is a singer/songwriter, music producer, artist and Fractal Theologian. He has been writing songs since the age of 4 and recording since the age of 16. He is also a minister in the British Methodist Church.

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