Love and loss, because he did not wait to hear her out...
Country, acoustic folk, folk-rock, indie pop.
One man band - a wide range of acoustic based country, pop and folk crossover music.
Story behind the song
Their love becomes strained because of a lack of direction, so they go their different ways. Their love draws them back together but he cannot bear the thought f rejection so he jumps the train... in the pouring rain... in Pokestown.
Lyrics
Pokestown
1.
Drowned and out in Pokesdown, floundering in the rain,
My body’s leaning eastwards but my hearts still on the train
And its beat is fading fast, however hard I strain,
I could not bear the news, so I cut and ran again,
Yes I cut and ran again.
Pre-Chorus:
To that crazy world, that crazy world I was in.
Chorus:
Love and loss in Pokesdown,
Who’d have thought of Pokesdown?
Pokesdown in my dreams again.
2.
I met her on the south coast; she was my summer sun,
We rooted round in London Town ‘till we ran out of fun.
We hitched up my guitar and we drifted down to Spain
But my thumb and fingers failed, so we drifted home again,
We drifted home again.
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3.
She spread her wings for America, where she lived life to the full
Eventually I made my way, to the streets of Istanbul
There I tried to make a life, on the back of my guitar
But I knew she was my home and that I had come too far,
Yes I had come too far.
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4.
Drowned and out in Pokesdown, floundering in the rain,
Alone and lost in loneliness, for my heart’s still on that train.
Yearning drew us back, the songbird and the dove
But the weeds had overgrown, in the garden of our love,
The garden of our love.
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Fin
