Late Night, Maudlin Street (2011 Remaster)

Winter coming

Winter 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 stick here

Love at first sight may sound trite

But it's true, you know

I could list the detail of everything you ever wore or said or how you stood the day

As we spent the last night on Maudlin Street

"Goodbye house, forever!"

I never stole a happy hour around here

Where the world's ugliest boy

He became what you see

Here I am, the ugliest man

The last night on Maudlin Street

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

Would you know, no one stays up for you

I had sixteen stitches all around my head

Oh, 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

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, 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

I will be soon

I will be soon

Will be, I will be soon

I will be soon, 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

Oh, oh, truly I love you, wherever you are