Familiar Faces

The town that I call Oldham, so many characters I've seen When a cold pint in the Scruples bar was a localer's big dream And the lads all in the stolen cars of a run-down 1.4 Capri From drinking on the corners with Pete Taylor and Craig Lindsay When Spanner and Pete Grimley were hiding shotguns in the chimney Oh, well, some hard times in this town, but it's the place that we loved And Mick Taddy's in the pub again, and he's barred from every boozer And the Durker Hotel's round again, we never thought much of the future Oh, no, if I could go back in time, I wouldn't change a single thing About these stories we wrote, 'cause that's when we were young This ain't the town we know, this ain't the town we knew Them young guns coming through, and I know that times are changing But I still don't feel the same way that I do When I'm here thinking of you and familiar faces This ain't the town we know, it just don't feel like home 'Cause all of my friends that I grew up with, most are dead and gone And I'm holding on to pictures in my mind Just wanna spend the night with you and familiar faces Well, the town that I call Oldham was born on childhood memories And the legends' names are carved in stone on the graves in the cemeteries We were singing to the Irish songs on the fairy tales of Yorkshire Street And Glyn Gardner's in the cells again for doing grows up in his home And the police outside of Pat's old house at 16 Pripy Road Oh, no, some hard times in this town, but it's the place that we loved And the council tax keeps going up, destroying our estates The pubs we spent the good nights in are just buildings gone to waste Oh, there were times I used to hold your hand and go see our favourite place Those memories will live a lifetime once again, 'cause that's when we were young This ain't the town we know, this ain't the town we knew Them young guns coming through, and I know that times are changing But I still don't feel the same way that I do When I'm here thinking of you and familiar faces This ain't the town we know, it just don't feel like home 'Cause all of my friends that I grew up with, most are dead and gone And I'm holding on to pictures in my mind Just wanna spend the night with you and familiar faces Familiar faces Familiar faces Familiar faces Familiar faces