Since I've Been Around

Walking down the main street

Of the town where I was born

Looking at these things I've seen

So many times before

I take a deep breath, smile

And kick a stone along the ground

Been so long, since I've been around

There's comfort in the way

That everything still looks the same

People that I bump into

They call me by my name

It almost feels as though

I never even left this town

Been so long, since I've been around

My girlfriend lived on Hawdon Street

Man was she a sight

Sometimes I would sneak

Into her bedroom late at night

Now she's not there

I'm told her family

Long since left the town

Been so long, since I've been around

Yeah many of my friends found

Some other place they'd rather be

But I still know of one good mate,

She gonna keep me company

I think I'm gonna call her up,

We'll go and paint the town

Been so long, since I've been around

I stopped on by her place,

Years ago I knew her well

Let's go drink to old times

At the Adelaide Hotel

She said it's twenty years now

Since they shut that old pub down

Been so long, since I've been around

Yeah but the hospital's still standing,

Down over by the river shore

That's the place where I took my

First breath, so many years before

I take a deep breath now and feel

My chest begin to pound

Been so long, since I've been around

Now I'm lying by the river

Feeling lazy in the shade

Children shout and splash about

In water where I played

And I'm thinking I could stay a while,

Maybe settle down

Been so long, since I've been around