THE JUNCTION (Paul O’Brien)

I wrote this song after the last time I visited East Wall and by chance ran into an old childhood friend later that day.

Yesterday I took a ramble

Back where I was small

Passed beneath the railway bridge

And down the old East Wall

I ran into an old friend

Now she’s a mother and a wife

And those half forgotten memories

Started coming back to life

CAN YOU HELP ME TO REMEMBER

THE PLACES AND THE NAMES

AND CAN YOU TELL ME WHY I’M MISSING

ALL THE CHILDREN AND THE GAMES?

HELP ME MARTINA TO REMEMBER

BECAUSE NOTHING SEEMS THE SAME

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SUMMERS?

WILL THEY EVER COME AGAIN?

Remember playing relive-i-o

And chasing down the lanes

And how the windows rattled

With o the passing of the trains

And we’d go down to the Fairview

To watch the matinee

Then over by the bandstand

How I loved those Saturdays

CAN YOU HELP ME…

Remember we kicked the cans

And chased down the lanes

And how the windows rattled

To the passing of the trains

That embankment seems much lower

They’ve blocked off all the lanes

And the junction’s long forgotten

Like the rumble of the trains

CAN YOU HELP ME..

Yesterday I took a ramble

Back where I was small

Passed beneath the railway bridge

And left the old East Wall