Dodging trains in Dortmund
Essen S-Bahn 8
And like a bike in Münster

Never going back

Step the streets of Bochum

Puppet man on show
And every German winter
Watch it snow, watch it snow


Reading cards and letters
On empty esplanades

Where the heart grows colder
Than the Eis Cafés


Always rains in England
Late Autumn leaves fall
Miss the rain in England

Miss you most of all

In Köln a statue's standing

For tourists at the Dome
All waiting for a movement
From a man of stone


To the juggler back in England
Whose hoops can kiss the sky

To the lady playing violin
It's an English lullaby


If you see a single snowflake
Blown from a foreign land
Place your warm hand on the window

Watch it thaw
While your fire is burning brightly
You stay close and warm inside

And if your winter heart is melting
I'll be there


When English rains are over
And the snow is here to stay
Just like the ghost of Christmas

I'll never go away.