Testo Classic Northern Divisions

I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain I saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain I?m in Huddersfield drinking in the slubber?s arms And walked through the slush by broken farms Where huddling sheep are turning grey In the cold light of a nothing day It took me fifty long years just to work out That because I was angry didn?t mean I was right Now I?m sitting in a bar alone With the jukebox playing a terrible song The bartender says I see it?s you again I been drinking deep from a jar of pain I remember once I went home like this I had my mother in tears as I felt her kiss Now my mother is heavenbound And her body lies in unmarked ground In every heart in every home There?s a dying man who lives alone He close the door and he turn away And the tide rushes in on a fatal shore I can never get too close to coal With a glass in my hand and the ember?s crack But the fire?s gone out and the chimney?s closed And there?s a round jeer sticking on my back I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain I saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain And with Chimney?s leaning to the sea I got the salt of Sunderland creasing me I took a jar of pain to the soaking field And to the lonely seawall inn south shields If I was a man which I am not Standing in the last of rotten snow I?d fall on my knees and I?d cry out loud To the snowy river and the icy flow I took a train out of Leeds in the smear and stain I saw the city pass by in the shuffling rain --- Lord help me, because my boat is so small And your sea is so immense