| 'bout what we might have had | |
| And what might have been | |
| We had something going once | |
| That was such a long, long time ago | |
| It was way back in '76 | |
| Our friendship formed of pure innocence | |
| We first met in mathew street | |
| Where we heard something that would set us free | |
| A sign stands over a door, it says | |
| "four lads who shook the world" | |
| In the depths of those heady nights | |
| We would dream of those bright lights | |
| Oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend | |
| And my friend john, he went away | |
| He made some mistakes | |
| Spent time in walton jail | |
| And now when i see him we still talk | |
| But there's no light shining in his eyes | |
| And susie, she was seventeen | |
| And more beauty in this world | |
| I swear you'll never see | |
| I was gonna be king | |
| And she was gonna be queen | |
| But now all she does is hide behind the tears | |
| If there was more sense in this world | |
| And work wasn't so hard to find | |
| You would not be going your way | |
| I would not be going mine | |
| Oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend | |
| Somewhere tonight out on the street | |
| Somewhere beneath this city's heat | |
| In the eyes of strangers who pass me by | |
| Life is cruel and so unkind | |
| Oh, oh the spirit of '76 | |
| And pete has seen his dreams come true | |
| But that don't make him no hero | |
| He's just one of the lucky few | |
| If a man can't change the world these days | |
| I still believe a man can change his own destiny | |
| But the price is high that has got to be paid | |
| For everyone who survives there are many who fail | |
| I've seen my friends caught out in that crossfire | |
| All their dreams and hopes smashed on the funeral pyre | |
| I will never give in until the day i die | |
| Get myself some independence | |
| Carve out a future with my two bare hands | |
| Oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend | |
| Somewhere tonight out on the street | |
| Somewhere beneath this city's heat | |
| In the eyes of strangers who pass me by | |
| Life is cruel and so unkind | |
| Oh, oh the spirit of '76 | |
| Mersey lights shine in the distance | |
| Same as they did for us then | |
| Mersey lights shine bright in the distance | |
| Where are you now my friend? | |
| You see some nights when i can't sleep | |
| I still think of you | |
| And all the promises,all our dreams we shared | |
| I know those lights still call to you | |
| I can hear them now | |
| I can hear them now | |
| (still shining for us) | |
| (let em shine) | |
| (can you hear them) | |
| (can you hear them) | |
| (lights are still shining) | |
| Somewhere tonight out on the street | |
| Somewhere beneath this city's heat | |
| In the eyes of strangers who pass me by | |
| Life is cruel and so unkind | |
| Oh- oh | |
| Where's it gone | |
| The spirit of '76 |
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