Spoonful of sugar in Montreal city
When the leaves are dying and look so pretty
At home the ships are on the rocks and sinking
And as hard as we try
We just can't stop thinking

Dirt in my fist roots on my sleeve
This year the trees fell before the leaves
People like me like people like you
Cause people like you are far too few

Oh night daylight had got nothing on you
And nothing's everlasting when your
Always just passing through Oh no!

Ear full of music just when I need it
Your sould won't sing unless you bleed it
Lookin' for answers through the night owl's window
A million miles an hour through the wind n' snow
A spoonful of sugar in Montreal city

Nothing can cure this homesick disease
This fall the trees fell before the leaves


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    Seems like this is about a person who has uprooted and taken to wandering... "passing through". What has been left behind is something valuable... "people like you are far too few". The fleeting comforts found are not enough to "cure this homesick disease". The trees falling before the leaves, departing home before something came to fruition.

    Lrxston February 07, 2007   Link

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