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  • I'm going back to the time when we owned this town

  • Down Powder Mill Lane, in the battlegrounds

  • We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns

  • I didn't know I was finding out how I'd be torn from you

  • When we talked about things we were gonna do

  • We were wide-eyed dreamers and wiser too

  • We'd go down to the rides on East Parade

  • by the lights of the Palace Arcade

  • And watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

  • I'm begging you for some sign, but you've still got nothing to say

  • Don't turn your back on me, don't walk away

  • I'm a better man now than I was that day

  • Let's go down to the rides on East Parade

  • by the lights of the Palace Arcade

  • And watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

  • Let's go down to the bandstand on the pier

  • Watch the drunks and the lovers appear

  • And take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café

  • I wheel my bike off the train

  • Up the North Trade Road

  • Look for you on Marley Lane

  • In every building, every street sign

  • Oh why did we ever go so far from home?

  • You've got nothing to hide, you can't change who you really are

  • You can get a big house and a faster car

  • You can run away boy, but you won't go far

  • Let's go down to the rides on East Parade

  • by the lights of the Palace Arcade

  • And watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

  • Stroll down to the bandstand on the pier

  • Watch the drunks and the lovers appear

  • And take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café

  • Sha la la la la la ri re

  • Yeah, I'm going where the people know my name.

I'm going back to the time when we owned this town

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    Bruce Chen posted on 2018/02/23
Video vocabulary

Keywords

parade

US /pəˈred/

UK /pə'reɪd/

  • noun
  • Large group walking in a public celebration
  • A place where troops assemble for parade or inspection.
  • A formal gathering of troops for inspection or display.
  • A public procession, especially one celebrating a special occasion.
  • A public procession, especially one celebrating a special occasion.
  • An ostentatious or showy display.
  • verb
  • To display something publicly
  • To display ostentatiously.
  • To march or proceed in a formal procession.
  • other
  • To march in a parade.
  • To march or proceed in a formal procession.
  • other
  • To display ostentatiously.
  • To display (someone or something) ostentatiously.
stroll

US /strol/

UK /strəʊl/

  • verb
  • To walk slowly and in a relaxed manner
trade

US /treid/

UK /treɪd/

  • noun
  • A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
  • Action of buying and selling things in business
  • The customers of a business.
  • Exchanging something for something else
  • A skilled occupation or craft.
  • A particular form of skilled work, such as carpentry or plumbing.
  • An instance of buying or selling stocks or other securities.
  • Job often requiring physical skills, e.g. plumbing
  • verb
  • To buy, sell and exchange goods in business
  • To give something in return for something else
  • other
  • To engage in buying and selling goods or services.
  • other
  • The activity of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services between people or countries.
  • other
  • To give something in exchange for something else.
  • To buy or sell stocks or other securities.
clueless

US /ˈklulɪs/

UK /'klu:ləs/

  • adjective
  • Totally uninformed about what is going on
sign

US /saɪn/

UK /saɪn/

  • noun
  • Indication that something exists or will happen
  • Motion or movement that expresses your thoughts
  • A board in the street that conveys information
  • Mark or symbol with an understood meaning
  • verb
  • To communicate by using ones hands and gestures
  • To write your signature on a document
build

US /bɪld/

UK /bɪld/

  • noun
  • Your physical shape; physique
  • A version of a software program.
  • The process of construction.
  • other
  • To increase or strengthen confidence.
  • To construct (something) by putting parts or materials together.
  • To increase or develop something over time.
  • To create or establish something gradually.
  • To use something as a base or foundation for further development.
  • To create or strengthen a relationship.
  • verb
  • To construct (something) by putting parts or materials together.
  • To develop or establish (something) gradually.
  • To establish e.g. a reputation, over time
  • To construct a house, office, factory
  • other
  • To work towards a particular goal or outcome.
  • To increase or intensify, especially referring to weather conditions.
own

US /on/

UK /əʊn/

  • verb
  • To admit that you have done something wrong
  • To have something as your property
  • other
  • To admit to be the case; confess.
  • To utterly defeat or dominate.
  • To have something as your property; possess.
  • adjective
  • Belonging to oneself or itself.
  • Used for emphasis, indicating that something belongs to or was done by the person specified.
  • Belong to oneself
  • pronoun
  • (Something) belong to myself
  • determiner
  • Yours, his, hers, etc.; not belonging to another
sovereign

US /ˈsɑ:vrən/

UK /ˈsɒvrɪn/

  • noun
  • King, queen, emperor etc. of a country
wheel

US /wi:l/

UK /wi:l/

  • noun
  • Round thing that rolls, used for moving things
  • verb
  • To move something which has wheels or is on wheels
  • To turn or cause to turn something in a circle
turn

US /tɚn/

UK /tɜ:n/

  • verb
  • To become (a particular age)
  • To become a different quality, color, etc.
  • To change the direction of something, e.g. a car
  • To move in an opposite direction or position
  • To shape metal with a spinning tool
  • noun
  • Place where changing of direction happens
  • Your time or chance to perform a duty
  • Your chance to play or do in say a game
  • Unexpected change, as in the weather