You could shoot off a cannon

Down the middle of Bond

And attract no attention in downtown St. John's

This getting nowhere is getting to me

Wondering where can you go

To be all you can be



No regular Joe wants to pull up and go

Just to wind up homesick

Where there's no one you know

Just a smoke and a beer

And the sports on T.V.

Being sorry you left

With no chance but to leave



No change in the weather

No change in me

I don't want to leave

But you can't live for free

You can't eat the air

And you can't drink the sea

No change in the weather

No change in me



You could shoot off a cannon

From the top of Long's Hill

And a Gulliver's taxi might be all that you'd kill

We were promised the sun and the moon and the stars

We got weathered old clapboard

And salt rusted cars



So I'll join in the leaving like all of the rest

Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver West

Lay down on the sidewalk

And kick of and die

Watch people not looking

As they hurry by



No change in the weather

No change in me

I don't want to leave

But you can't live for free

You can't eat the air

And you can't drink the sea

No change in the weather

No change in me