Southside Tenements - David Knopfler

London City’s Southside Tenements

Rusty cans, broken cars, cracked cement

Someone blocked the drains, someone’s smashed a vent

In a southside, a Southside Tenement

London City’s Southside Tenements

Flags are flying for some royal event

People hanging out the St. Paul’s windows

Linin' up on the pavements and on The High Street

And on City Road and from Crossfields

And the Southside Tenements

I get restive, I got to leave

Take the shortcut home

Past the arches, by the railway

Where an' old friend swears that he could save me

For a crazy boy he’s okay

For a southside, a southside cavalcade

Hear the haunted, the haunted serenader

Just a memory a-fadin' on The Broadway

Fading from the southside

The Southside Tenements

Sleepwalkin' to the Oxford Arms

No-one noticing warehouse alarms

Slamming dominoes in the back bar

Safe from harm, by The Tenements

The Southside Tenements

London City Southside Tenements

Cops say my kids are thieves

They say «The Bill are bent»

I dunno, I’m only sharin' rent

In a southside, a Southside Tenement

London City’s Southside Tenements

Broken parts, broken hearts, cracked cement

Some spray-can words 'bout love an' gold — remember them?

And a madman cryin' «Nobody's condemned»

Not even Southside, Southside Tenements

And I remember Southside Tenements