the mayor gave me the keys to the city the welcome wagons already appear but again i ll be packing and leaving for it s plain now that she once lived here it may be that i ll never forget her cause she s love and love lives everywhere could it be that i ll always be saying i ve got to go for she once lived here i see her face in the cool of the evening i hear her voice in each breeze loud and clear oh there must be a town without memories but not this one for she once lived here i ve got to go now for she once lived here