I'm going back to the time when we owned this town
In the part that we live, in the battlegrounds
We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns

I didn't know what you thought of that night
I was torn from you When we thought about things
we were gonna do We were wide eyed dreamers and

wiser too Go down to the rides on east parade,
by the lights of the palace arcade Watch night


going down on the Sovereign Light Cafe
I'm begging you for some sign, but you've still
got nothing to say Oh I'm turning back home and

I'm walking away I'm a better man now than I was
that day Go down to the rides on east parade,
by the lights of the palace arcade Watch night

coming down on the Sovereign Light Cafe
Go down to the bandstand on the pier
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear


Take time, just the stars and the Sovereign
Light Cafe I wheel my bike off the train,

Up the North Trade Road, Look for you along
the way In every building, every streetlight
Oh why did we ever go so far from home?

We keep on leaving there Now no traces of
who you are You can get a big house and a


faster car You can run away boy, but you
won't go far Let's go down to the rides on
east parade, by the lights of the palace arcade

Watch night going down on the Sovereign Light Cafe
Stroll down to the bandstand on the pier
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear

Take time, just the stars and the Sovereign Light Cafe