On Hamilton Road Poem by jim hogg

It was down by the corner on Hamilton Road
On a cold Sunday night when we met long ago
And we tenderly talked about what might have been
And your kiss was so soft and your lips were so sweet

We were only eighteen; I was full of it then
When we sat face to face in old F O S 10
And to have and to hold you, to fall or to dance
To win or to lose you, my very last chance


And the heavens held station above us that night
All the stars and the moon, they were waiting for signs
And you offered the dream I'd had since we were kids
And I threw it all to the cold winter wind

It was coming on Christmas, I was blind, I was young,
and though all that unfolded was distance my love
You can still find a part of me chained like a ghost
In search of that dream down on Hamilton Road


But there's no place for sorrow though love fled the field
Like the swirl of the snowflake preparing to yield
Because you were the sweet breeze that gave this life flight
The beautiful storm that once brought me to life

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Now the world keeps on turning from the world we once knew
From rusting school gates where I waited for you
To streets where we're strangers by night and by day
But Hamilton Road - sometimes seems like yesterday

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