There's no mistake I smell that smell It's that time of year again I can taste the air
The clocks go back Railway track Something blocks the line again And the train runs late for the first time
A pebble beach We're underneath A pier just been painted red Where I hear the news for the first time
And all the friends lay down the flowers Sit on the banks and talk for hours Talk of the way they saw him last Local boy in the photograph today
He'll always be twenty three Yet the train runs on and on Past the place they found his clothing
There's no mistake I smell that smell It's that time of year again I can taste the air
The clocks go back Railway track Something blocks the line again And the train runs late for the first time today
And all the friends lay down the flowers Sit on the banks and talk for hours Talk of the way they saw him last Local boy in the photograph He's gone away