walking down the main street of the town where i was born looking at these things i ve seen so many times before i take a deep breath smile and kick a stone along the ground been so long since i ve been around there s comfort in the way that everything still looks the same people that i bump into they call me by my name it almost feels as though i never even left this town been so long since i ve been around my girlfriend lived on hawdon street man was she a sight sometimes i would sneak into her bedroom late at night now she s not there i m told her family long since left the town been so long since i ve been around yeah many of my friends found some other place they d rather be but i still know of one good mate she gonna keep me company i think i ll gonna call her up we ll go and paint the town been so long since i ve been around i stopped on by her place years ago i knew her well let s go drink to old times at the adelaide hotel she said it s twenty years now since they shut that old pub down been so long since i ve been around yeah but the hospital s still standing down over by the river shore that s the place where i took my first breath so many years before i take a deep breath now and feel my chest begin to pound been so long since i ve been around now i m lying by the river feeling lazy in the shade children shout and splash about in water where i played and i m thinking i could stay a while maybe settle down been so long since i ve been around