Come hold me now

I am not gone

I would not leave you here alone

In this dead calm beneath the waves

I can still hear those lost boys calling



You could not speak

You were afraid

To take the risk of being left again

And so you tipped your hat and waved and then

You turned back up the gangway of that steel tomb again



And in Mott street in July

When I hear those seabirds cry

I hold the child

The child in the man

The child that we leave behind



And in Mott street in July

When I hear those seabirds cry

I hold the child

The child in the man

The child that we leave behind





The spotlight fades

The boys disband

The final notes lie mute upon the sand

And in the silence of the grave

I can still hear those lost boys calling



We left them there

When they were young

The men were gone until the west was won

And now there's nothing left but time to kill

You never took us fishin' dad and now you never will



And in Mott street in July

When I hear those seabirds cry

I hold the child

The child in the man

The child that we leave behind