taking my camera out again for some photographs i won t forget i go for a walk along east bay it s so beautiful today happiness hanging in the air and it s only real when shared remember the night at the gallery the back of the roon and she smiled at me i knew right away i could never be lone how could i be lonely i always wanna feel like i do in charleston i tell you thats the way that life should be i always wanna love like i love in charleston oh how i love you charleston your secret s safe with me na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na counting the cobblestones and bricks that the fathers built the city with i might be a yankee born and raised but it s here i wanna spend my days a sandwich a pose and a bunch of friends the fourth of july out on sullivan i gotta get back to a place so real it s so real i always wanna feel like i do in charleston i tell you thats the way that life should be i always wanna love like i love in charleston oh how i love you charleston your secret s safe with me na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na got rid of the old bridge and put in a new bridge everyone knows that things must change we know what we were and we know what we can be change is slow this i know i always wanna feel like i do in charleston i tell you thats the way that life should be i always wanna love like i love in charleston oh how i love you charleston your secret s safe with me na na na na na na na na your secrets safe with me na na na na na na na na your secret s safe with me