Then And Now Lyrics

This is the place where my childhood stood
Al Airfix glue and balsa wood
But you can barely trace the outline of it now
A myth of England lost for good
Beneath the Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hoods
But we'll be swimming in nostalgia till we drown
Somewhere between then and now
We killed and ate our sacred cow's
And nothing seems the same somehow
It all just slipped away
The future that seemed crystal clear
Got stuck in time and disappeared
We watched an era ending here when Stevie went away
When all the dreaming turns to dust
And time has made a fool of us
Till I don't know if to laugh or if to cry
As one more hero betrays our trust
That Georgie Best in each of us
Limps back to the changing rooms to die
Somewhere between then and now
We killed and ate our sacred cow's
And nothing seems the same somehow
It all just slipped away
The future that seemed crystal clear
Got stuck in time and disappeared
We watched an era ending here when Stevie went away
Well there goes the punch line to God's big joke
The World we'd set to conquer is just another puff of smoke
It's just a speck on the horizon, just a childish memory
looks like I lost my sense of humour and my sense of irony
Somewhere between then and now