The last night on Maudlin Street

goodbye house

goodbye stairs

I was born here

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 details

of everything you ever wore

or said, or how you stood that day

and as we spend the last night

on Maudlin Street, I say

"goodbye house-forever!"

I never stole a happy hour

around here

Where the world's ugliest boy

became what you see

here I am - the ugliest man

Its the last night on Maudlin Street

and 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

nobody stays up for you

when you have sixteen stitches

all around your head

the last buss 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

power-cuts ahead

as we crept through the park

but 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 packed

I am moving house

a half-life disappears today

every slag waves me on

(secretly wishing me gone

well, I will be soon

oh - I will be soon)

There were bad times on Maudlin Street

when 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!

and...truly I do love you

wherever you are

wherever you are