Six Years
Liner notes
I've genuinely no idea when I wrote this. I grew up (to the extent that I ever did) in Bicester, Oxfordshire, and it was always a grim place to go back to. I remember having a conversation with another songwriter in the Six Bells there about taking inspiration from one's home town. I don't think he meant like this.I travelled the length of a country today
Nothing had changed since I'd been away
The sky's still overcast and the fast food's still slow
There's still kids drinking cider round the back of Tesco
Six years have passed since I was here last, six years have passed.
Down the alley, where the chip shop used to be
You can still see graffiti, some of it older than me
God save the Queen and Anarchy,
JD is dead, it says, by now he might well be
Six years have passed since I was here last, six years have passed.
There's a few new houses and a couple of renamed bars
And a slightly trendier selecion of cars
But there's still dog-shit on the pavement
There's still vomit on the pavement
Six years have passed since I was here last, six years have passed.
I bumped into a girl I hadn't seen
Since I asked her out when we were 14
Time's been kind to her since year nine,
She's the closest thing this town has to a vital sign
Six years have passed since I was here last, six years have passed.
I travelled the length of a country today
Everything had changed since I've been away
All my pals have moved and the best pubs shut down
There's no home left in my home town
Six years have passed since I was here last, six years have passed,
And I don't recognise it at all.