You Came Back Down the Same Street

Lyrics

Twenty years since the station
Twenty years since goodbye
You're standing by the lamppost
With the same look in your eye

Your hair has a little silver
Mine has gone away
We say hello like strangers
Then the years fall away

You came back down the same street
The same old street we knew
The corner shop is closed now
But the lamp still shines for you
You came back down the same street
And I knew you by your walk
Some things the years can't change
Some things don't need to talk

We sit down at a table
In a café by the square
You stir your cup of coffee
And I watch the steam in the air

You tell me where you wandered
I tell you where I stayed
Neither of us is sorry
For the roads that we made

You came back down the same street
The same old street we knew
The corner shop is closed now
But the lamp still shines for you
You came back down the same street
And I knew you by your walk
Some things the years can't change
Some things don't need to talk

We were young and we were certain
We were sure we knew the way
Now we're older and we're softer
And we've got all night to stay

The evening folds around us
The waiter stacks the chairs
You touch my hand a moment
And the whole square disappears

You came back down the same street
The same old street we knew
The corner shop is closed now
But the lamp still shines for you
You came back down the same street
And I knew you by your walk
Some things the years can't change
Some things don't need to talk

You came back down the same street
And the lamp still shines for you