There's a strange, anodyne quality to th eplanned environments we've created over the last 50 years...
Lyrics
This town is missing a heart – it’s missing a soul
There’s nothing that lives from its roots. There’s nothing that’s old
Parking your car is no problem but you can’t walk around
And the people are living their modern day lives
In this town
This town was planned to a budget
Convenient land where few would begrudge it.
Offices shops and a retail park
But no birds sing and no dogs bark
In this town
There are no weathered carvings - no mysteries here
All the walls are in line - all the angles severe
Not one roof shows the weight or the stories of time borne down
And nobody thinks of the old times here
In this town.
The buses and cars rock and roll
Their one-way marking time
And the folks at the checkouts are waiting in line
We had to corral the displaced urban overspill here
With order maintained using CCTV overkill here
We’ll keep it quite tidy, we’ll keep the crime rate down
And satellite telly will keep them all quiet
In this town
This town was planned to a budget
Convenient land where few would begrudge it.
Offices shops and a retail park
But no birds sing and no dogs bark
In this town
For the tang of the ocean in the air
The open caress of the wind
In the perfect cathedral of rain in the trees
My spirit will sing
My spirit will sing
My spirit will sing
But not in this town…
