The Smith Street Band - East London Summer lyrics

Dictated to by empty streets
Chain stores and big machines
The snow falls hard on soft debris
But I know this town don't envy me
And the locals all seem nice enough
But they cross streets I dare not walk
I'll drive the extra couple blocks
And stop when I am told to stop

And everyone in this shitty bar is just
Trying to sink their teeth
Into everybody else
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer

Nothing make you feel more alive
Than being surrounded by things
That have recently died
And on this goddamn bitter
Cold late November night
The kids put on their coats to


Go and see the Christmas lights
In the urban undeveloped
Wastelands of Michigan
Sleet falls on my jacket
Teeth are chattering again
And the locals all drink and laugh
Fight when they have drunk too much
The kids look like they grew up
Knowing how to take a punch
And the month-old front pages
From local newspapers dance
On the lonely winds around the empty
Lobbies of once grand buildings

And everyone in this shitty bar is just
Trying to sink their teeth
Into everybody else
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer
Let's be anything, let's be lovers
We'll take care of one another
Live like the people I looked up to
In the time when I was happier
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer

And now I'm smoking weed in New York City
In the land of happy-ever-afters
And dreams come true
I pass out piss drunk on the
Floor of a motel room
Wake up shivering, thinking about you
And I'm tired, I'm so tired

And everyone in this shitty bar is just
Trying to sink their teeth
Into everybody else
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer
Let's be anything, let's be lovers
We'll take shots at one another
Live like the people I looked up to
In the time when I was happier
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer