I NEVER SAW MY HOMETOWN 'TIL I WENT ROUND THE WORLD

Ian McNabb



Love is like a razor when you're looking for a shave

Shed off all your dignity I'll race you to your grave

The driver's getting sentimental talking ‘bout this girl

I never saw my hometown ‘til I went round the world



Going up to Canada the record company

Are paying for the trip you know that all the drinks are free

She may just leave her lover for me it's getting quite absurd

I never saw my hometown ‘til I went round the world



Tuesday night The Rain Parade come crashing in my room

Matt was stoned and Beggars phoned the chart position's gloom

You'd better call the embassy my hair is gonna curl

I never saw my hometown ‘til I went round the world



Been awake for thirty hours I think I'm going down

With some habituary illness that's been going round this town

Dreaming of Waikiki where we know we felt like kings

But the reverie is slaughtered when the telephone rings



Pulling on a cigarette and scratching at my beard

Talking ‘bout the folks at home this DJ thinks I'm weird

Crawl around the floor pick up the beer cans that you hurl

You saw your hometown ‘til you went round the world



Love is like a razor when you're looking for a shave

Shed off all your dignity I'm gonna race you to your grave

Getting sentimental thinking ‘bout a girl

I never saw my hometown ‘til I went round the world, no

I never saw my hometown ‘til I went round the world, no

I never saw my hometown ‘til I went round the world