Fairground Attraction Station Street Lyrics

Station Street Lyrics

the kids from Station Street 
don’t play ’round here no more 
she doesn’t exactly understand 
but it’s something to do with the war 
so she learned some tunes on piano 
she’s very good for her age 
but sometimes she pounds the keys 
with her tiny fists in a rage 
she doesn’t exactly understand 
but it’s something to do with the war 
 
like when Aunt Mary took her to O‘Riley’s caff 
he said “I can’t serve your kind in here 
so don’t go coming back” 
so she took to painting pictures 
such a promising child 
but sometimes the pictures she paints 
are ugly and wild 
she doesn’t exactly understand 
but it’s something to do with the war 
 
Enstrümental 
 
so she prays to the statues on Sundays 
she says “please won’t you give me a sign 
if there’s any sense to this 
move your hand or wink an eye” 
but the statues are cold and stony faced 
like the soldiers by the door 
she doesn’t understand anything at all 
anything at all