Just A Boy Away From Home - Mark Knopfler

When I was just a boy I’d be kicking a tin

Take the short cut home through the loony bin

I never gave much thought to the souls in there

I was just a boy, too young to care

Well the years go by and you get to see

A dream’s not the same as reality

Well a dream or two is going to crash and burn

And that’s the way that you live and learn

Well it was late one night and I woke at two

And I lay there thinking the way you do

But it’s a long dark night of the soul

When those thoughts are turning sad and old

And then outside on the empty street

I heard the sound of walking feet

Well it was just a boy away from home

And he was singing the song 'You'll Never Walk Alone'