When they closed down my favourite record store
I shed a little tear
I used to buy my vinyl
With my pocket money here
Slowly all my childhood
Has been ripped out of this town
The bulldozers are coming in
My memories falling down
The bar where I drank my first beer
And floated in the stratosphere 
It’s now a store sells fancy goods
And smelly things and bath time suds
The sports shop where I bought my cue
For playing pool and snooker too
Is now an empty vacant shell

Graffiti covered hard to sell 

The place I used to buy my shirts

What's happening to my town sure hurts
The market now is dank and cold
And all the stalls they look so old

They keep on bumping up the rent

Throughout the town the same lament

The news agents has gone away

They had too many bills to pay

I used to buy my smash hits there 

Now you can’t buy that anywhere
The times are changing way to fast
The void from boy to man so vast
And where did all those years go
And just what do I have to show
Because next year I will be fifty
And wish that I had been more thrifty
Should have saved for rainy days
Damn my procrastinating ways
If I'd have known the road ahead
Had obstacles to fill with dread
Even the strongest bravest soul
Would find it hard to reach a goal
But hand on heart it’s fair to say
I’ve reached this mile stone
Come what may