People come And people go On the North Parade Painting pictures Of paradise At the penny arcade But as the arcade penny claw Comes a rapping To my door On the North Parade They’ve all gone away On the North Parade Deserted again A lamp it flickers Behind the blind At the end of the day A stranger looks out To the cove From the passage way But as the arcade penny claw Comes a rapping To my door On the North Parade They’ve all gone away On the North Parade Deserted again There’s a boy That can’t go home He walks out here alone On the North Parade They’ve all gone away On the North Parade The World seems so strange