James Dale

In Belfast 1924

He has to leave home

Working on a merchant ship

Waiting just to jump ship, yeah

Out of the cane fields

The summer 1926

The boy's only sixteen

How's he gonna start his dreams?

Mind and soul, they've gone stale

And is that all there is to it

James Dale

They fell in love in 1938

Their first child and a world war

He's leaving home in a uniform

How's he gonna start his dreams?

(Yeah)

Love of life, it's gone stale

Blood runs deep like gold

James Dale

I can see you now

Photograph of a dog and a rusty car

I can see you now

Your sunburnt face, your back against the wall

Mind and soul, they've gone stale

Is that all there is to it

James Dale

Love of life, it's gone stale

Blood runs deep like gold

James Dale, James Dale