[Verse 1]
Tommy’s from the city lives in a North End terraced house,
near a council estate, he makes windows and doors.
And though his friends are means to ends, oh, how he often thinks of getting out
like his mother did, near 18 years before.
 
Whistling Part
 
[Verse 2]
The boy’s got a vision of going on a mission to the USA.
He wants to sing and dance and act on those Broadway shows.
If he should speak a word, well, then he’d save it for another day
for a North End kid like him now it’s how it goes.
 
[Chorus 1]
  He goes upstairs and takes his medicine,
goes to Heaven in his head and shuts his eyes.
When he sees the sunshine on his face sees the World as a completely different place
where he can find himself a lover   and add a kid to it’s space.
 
Where there’s music in the street, the crowd are throwing roses at his feet
and then he pulls away the covers and ready’s for another couple of days in the real World,
 
struggling to make ends [Interlude] meet.
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[Verse 3]
Tommy’s dad’s a marine so to dare or to dream’s rather hard sometimes
and the anger builds from those lethal blows he’s took.
If he’s to go out at night he’ll get caught in a fight in a bar sometimes,
another North End Kid another shit out of luck.
 
[Chorus 2]
  Then he goes home and takes that medicine,
goes to Heaven in his head and shuts his eyes.
When he sees the sunshine on his face sees the World as a completely different place
where he can find himself a lover   and add a kid to it’s space.
 
Where there’s music in the street, the crowd are throwing roses at his feet
and then he pulls away the covers and ready’s for another couple of days in the real World,
 
struggling to make ends [Interlude] meet.
 
 
[Outro]
When he sees the sunshine on his face sees the World as a completely different place
where he can find himself a lover   and add a kid to it’s space;
where there’s music in the street, the crowd are throwing roses at his feet
and then he pulls away the covers and ready’s for another couple of days in the real World,
struggling to make ends meet.