How We Remember It

Packing up the carnival again

Leaving's not as exciting as arriving

There were nights when the music was so loud

Billie came down and we spun the waltzers round

And round

Bobby Boyd took over on the wall of death

"Gravity does not apply," he said, "if you have friends"

But in the end the wheel stopped turning

Lorries were loaded, engines turning

Heading out

To a different town

This is how we remember it

Sooner or later your time starts running out

On a bus or a train in a photograph

Say goodbye to the circus leaving town

'Cause there's a long road out heading south

Candy floss and rides and cigarettes

Summer nights we never will forget

We were counting on one last turn

Taking the ghost train round and round again

Again

This is how we remember it

Sooner or later your time starts running out

On a bus or a train in a photograph

Say goodbye to the circus leaving town

'Cause there's a long road out heading south

There's a long road out heading south

The grass is bare from when the fairground stood here

There's a chill in the late October air

We're not there

This is how we remember it

Sooner or later your time starts running out

On a bus or a train in a photograph

Say goodbye to the circus leaving town

'Cause there's a long road out heading south

There's a long road out heading south

There's a long road out heading south