Wicker Man - The Mock Turtles

I had a friend who came from far away

And every day we would go down by the river and play

Like long lost summers of the past

These interrupted games weren’t meant to last

I sit and watch the lights go out on my home my growing up town

And I wonder what he’s doing now

And I will build a wicker man and put inside all those things

That make me old before my time

We found his auntie’s holy water and refilled it from the tap

‘She'll bless herself with good ole H2O!'

he said.

Oh god we laughed and laughed

We wrote our names in new cement beside the river

We really thought that they would last for ever and ever

But late one night when walking home

I couldn’t find the names the place had overgrown

I sit and watch the lights go out on my home my growing up town

And I wonder what he’s doing now

And I will build a wicker man and put inside all those things

That make me old before my time

Born in a booming ‘instant potato' age a teeshirt full of youth

Discovering sex and cigarettes and oh I know… but it was all true!

I sit and watch the lights go out on my home my growing up town

And I wonder what he’s doing now

And if I really have a call, I’d catch them all as they fall

And say;

Daddy’s home…