Tony Peek - Hastings Lyrics

There's a place that I know
In England-by-the-sea
Where people come and go
In the face of history
It's home when I am happy
It's home when I am blue
It's home when I am coming back to you
The streets they rise to greet me
The stars shine from on high
The screams of dying soldiers
On the winds they pass me by
Oh Hastings, Hastings
Though far from you I roam
Hastings, Hastings
You will always be my home

The sea stretches before me
The hills stand strong behind
Though a closer place to paradise
Perhaps on earth you'll find
It's home when I am happy
It's home when I am blue
It's home when I am coming back to you
I walk the streets at night time
I keep good company
I'm alone with all my thoughts
And they're alone with me

Some people try and tell me
That the human race is run
And some they try and tell me
That it hasn't yet begun
And some say love is golden
And some say love is blue
I know love when I'm coming back to you
I've lived too long already
Though I'm only thirty-two
My hands are no longer steady
And I feel as old as you

Some people try and tell me
That to stand still is to drown
But I don't care cause I want my ghost
To live in Hastings town
Cause it's home when I am happy
It's home when I am blue
It's home when I am coming back to you
At night I drown my sorrows
In a place beside the sea
Where I know everybody
And everyone knows me