RESURGO

This is a love song.

RESURGO

You know you can’t go home again

At least that’s what they say, but

If home is where the heart is  

I’ve never been away

My home is by a river where the tide rolls in each day

To rise again

Raised in the East End, we learned to make things do

Then we moved away a while where everything was new

Except for the memories

When the ghosts of Highland View

Rise again

Chorus:

You know you can’t go home again, they say

But if home is where the heart is

I’ve never been away

My home is by a river where the tide rolls in each day

To rise again

Not big on bragging, not much on ‘shock and awe’

It’s a nice place to raise a family, not for pointing out each flaw

Our quiet heroes have names like

O’Leary and Bourgeois

Rise again

(Chorus)

The more this city changes the more it stays the same

Some of us still know old neighborhoods by their old names

Knocked down, but never counted out

Always in the game

To rise again

(Chorus)

My hometown keeps moving on, rolling its own way

When you know the tides keep changing, you live day by day

Folks round ‘The Bend’ will take a stand

To fight or pray

And rise again

Now I like to sing on Main Street and tell people what I saw

Some friends say “How ya doin,” some say “Comment ça-va”

And that mighty tide keeps rolling in

I think that it’s a law

We rise again

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© 2012 Dale Petley (Moncton)