Randal Gave

Station Street

Randal Gave


The Kids From Station Street 
Don't Play 'round Here no More 
She Doesn't Exactly Understand 
But It's Something to do With the War 
So She Learned Some Tunes On Piano 
She's Very Good For Her Age 
But, Sometimes, She Pounds the Keys 
With Her Tiny Fists in a Rage 
She Doesn't Exactly Understand 
But It's Something to do With the War 

Like When Aunt Mary Took Her to O'riley's Caff 
He Said "I Can't Serve Your Kind in Here, 
So Don't Go Coming Back" 
So She Took to Painting Pictures 
Such a Promising Child 
But, Sometimes, the Pictures She Paints 
Are Ugly and Wild 
She Doesn't Exactly Understand 
But It's Something to do With the War 

So She Prays to the Statues On Sundays 
She Says "Please, Won't You Give Me a Sign? 
If There's Any Sense to This, 
Move Your Hand Or Wink An Eye" 
But the Statues Are Cold and Stony Faced 
Like the Soldiers By the Door 
She Doesn't Understand Anything At All 
Anything At All 
Anything At All