People come and people go
On the North Parade
Painting pictures of paradise
At the penny arcade

But as the arcade penny claw
Comes a rapping to my door

On the North Parade
They've all gone away
On the North Parade
Deserted again

A lamp it flickers behind the blind
At the end of the day
A stranger looks out to the cove
From the passage way

But as the arcade penny claw
Comes a rapping to my door

On the North Parade
They've all gone away
On the North Parade
Deserted again

There's a boy that can't go home
He walks out here alone

On the North Parade
They've all gone away
On the North Parade
The world seems so strange