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Lakeside Park Lyrics
Midway hawkers calling "Try your luck with me."
Merry-go-round wheezing same old melody.
A thousand ten-cent wonders, who could ask for more.
A pocketful of silver, the key to heaven's door.
Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze.
Lakeside Park, so many memories.
Laughing rides, midway lights,
Shining stars on summer nights.
Days of barefoot freedom, racing with the waves,
Nights of starlit secrets, crackling driftwood flames,
Drinking by the lighthouse, smoking on the pier,
Still, we saw the magic was fading every year.
Everyone would gather on the twenty fourth of May,
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display.
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together,
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever.
Merry-go-round wheezing same old melody.
A thousand ten-cent wonders, who could ask for more.
A pocketful of silver, the key to heaven's door.
Lakeside Park, so many memories.
Laughing rides, midway lights,
Shining stars on summer nights.
Nights of starlit secrets, crackling driftwood flames,
Drinking by the lighthouse, smoking on the pier,
Still, we saw the magic was fading every year.
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display.
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together,
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever.
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This, while mostly simple nostalgia, does go beyond that. I think he is saying that the magic of our childhoods will die at some point but it will always live on in our memories.
This song is awesome, it's about this park in Port Dalhousie, Canada which is like a 5 minute walk from my house!
Classic song from Caress of Steel. Kinda reminds me of Zeppelin, sort of like Over the Hills and Far Away. Surprised noone has commented. Maybe because everyone underrates this solid precursor to their masterpiece "2112".
Classic song from Caress of Steel. Kinda reminds me of Zeppelin, sort of like Over the Hills and Far Away. Surprised noone has commented. Maybe because everyone underrates this solid precursor to their masterpiece "2112".
I'm glad to see johnpauljones86 compare this somewhat to Zeppelin and their Over the Hills and Far Away. I've thought the very same thing for many years now.
And I agree that this album is highly underrated.
This was my favorite Rish song for a while... 2112 and possibly the Spirit of Radio have replaced it, but it's still such an awesome song. Makes me wish could play guitar...
They used to hang out in a park.
It was cool.
This song was inspired by where Neil used to work. When he was in his late teens he took up a job at the fairgrounds there..
"Midway hawkers calling "Try your luck with me." Merry-go-round wheezing same old melody. A thousand ten-cent wonders, who could ask for more. A pocketful of silver, the key to heaven's door. " Try your luck with me/ --obviously stating about his jobs, which were the Ball Toss and the Bubble Game. A pocketfull of silver was all you needed to have fun, hence a key to heavens door. I really like the song. It has such a nice melody. I don't know about riffs or guitars or anything like that, but it is really just a nice put together song.
is this song about lakeside amusement park?
I've always loved how Neil's lyrics have a story behind them. His songs have memories in them that they have lived through instead of a whole lot of words thrown together.