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Introduction:
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Walking down the main street of this town where I was born
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Looking at the things I?ve seen so many times before
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I take a deep breath, smile and kick a stone along the ground
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Been so long since I?ve been around
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There's comfort in the way that everything still looks the same,
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and people that I bump into they call me by my name,
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It almost feels as though I never even left this town
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Been so long since I?ve been around
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And My girlfriend she lived on Hawdon St - man was she a sight,
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Sometimes I would sneak into her bedroom late at night,
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Now she's not there - I'm told her family long since left the town,
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Been so long since I?ve been around
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Yeah Many of my friends they found some other place they'd rather be
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But I still now of one good mate shes gunna keep me company
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But I think I?m gonna call her up, we'll go and paint the town,
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Been so long since I?ve been around (Middle)
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I stopped on by her place, years ago I knew her well
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"lets go drink to old times at the Adelaide hotel'
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She said its twenty years now since they shut that old pub down
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Been so long since I?ve been around
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Yeah But the hospital's still standing, down over by the river shore
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That's the place where I took my first breath, so many years before
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I take a deep breath now and feel my chest begin to pound
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Been so long since I?ve been around (middle)
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Now I'm lying by the river feeling lazy in the shade
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Children shout and splash about in water where I played
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And I'm thinking I could stay a while, maybe settle down,
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Been so long since I?ve been around (outro)