Lights Of The Commodore Barry Lyrics - Singles - Matthew Ryan

I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry 

From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry 

And I felt the shock of an atom bomb 

When the tired old city of Chester 

Was draped and dying in my arms 

For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering 

Of how the sun would warmthe projects some mornings 

When the birds were falling like winter's frozen rain 

And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch 

Twelve years old and already ashamed 

Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue 

By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too 

Yeah I had returned like I swore I would 

To right some wrongs and sing my song 

And share the luck that every man should 

But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream 

I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline 

When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar 

And carried my drunk bones all the way home 

Draped and heavy in his arms