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lyrics

Lincolnshire

She stayed in a little town, with Lincolnshire all around
She stayed in this little place, in my head with the market place and green

I thought I’d left her here
Like the pickles on her larder shelf
Just waiting there

I thought I’d left her there
Like wartime gas-tight bottled pears
From some dim remembered country fair

I forgot about cars, supermarkets, bars, satellite TV, the internet and jobs
And changes in the world, gazing at the same stars
Old men on park seats and new people on your streets

All those waves of changes
All those years of changes

It was me who stayed in that little world, and on the bed sheets nostalgia burns
I held you in this little place, in my head with my past mistakes

I don’t think I mean to patronise, I just needed to leave then, no compromise
But all these cities are just little towns, with meaner buses and bigger crowds

I thought I’d left you there
In the past with all my prejudice of small town worlds

I’d like to make it clear, my world is no bigger than Lincolnshire
Or that small town girl


By John Parkes

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from Bleeding Edge / Distant Past, released October 14, 2013
Acoustic guitar, vocals – John Parkes

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