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Birmingham Lyrics
All the efforts spent to fail
Made this place a living hell
Now the best years of our life
Are fading vapor trails
Think tonight I'll just sleep in
pull the sheets up to my chin
drop the needle in the groove
and watch the record spin
Your eyes are tired
You're not the boy I knew
Birmingham is slowly killing you
So tell her
I'm the one you left behind
And I'll be here
just in case you change your mind
Goodbye
Now the cut is overgrown
the old highway carved in snow
and I walk through Holland park
wondering where the birds flown
Think tonight I'll just sleep in
pull the sheets up to my chin
drop the needle in the groove
and watch the record spin
Your eyes are tired
You're not the boy I knew
Birmingham is slowly killing you
So tell her
I'm the one you left behind
And I'll be here
just in case you change your mind
You're free
and from the wound I'll be
Just someone you use to know
Oh I lived here my whole life
And never had that much to show
So tell her I said hello
Your eyes are tired
You're not the boy I knew
Birmingham is slowly killing you
So tell her
I'm the one you left behind
And I'll be here
just in case you change your mind
Goodbye
Made this place a living hell
Now the best years of our life
Are fading vapor trails
pull the sheets up to my chin
drop the needle in the groove
and watch the record spin
You're not the boy I knew
Birmingham is slowly killing you
I'm the one you left behind
And I'll be here
just in case you change your mind
the old highway carved in snow
and I walk through Holland park
wondering where the birds flown
pull the sheets up to my chin
drop the needle in the groove
and watch the record spin
You're not the boy I knew
Birmingham is slowly killing you
I'm the one you left behind
And I'll be here
just in case you change your mind
and from the wound I'll be
Just someone you use to know
And never had that much to show
So tell her I said hello
You're not the boy I knew
Birmingham is slowly killing you
I'm the one you left behind
And I'll be here
just in case you change your mind
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I think this song is about Birmingham, AL since that's where the artist is from. So some corrections could be, instead of:
cut is overgrown- kudzu's overgrown(a plant that grows all over in the south, especially in this area of Alabama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu) highway carved in snow- highway carved in stone (the Red Mountain Expressway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mountain_Expressway_Cut) Holland Park- Highland Park (a park of this name in downtown Birmingham http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=highland+park,+birmingham&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=-wQySsuyNaXFmQeskaSbCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1)
just thought that was interesting