One Better Day

Album: Keep Moving (1984)
Charted: 17
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  • Arlington house, address no fixed abode
    An old man in a three-piece suit sits in the road
    He stares across the water, he sees right through the lock
    But on and up like outstretched hands
    His mumbled words, his fumbled words, mock

    Further down, a photo booth, a million plastic bags
    And an old woman filling out a million baggage tags
    But when she gets thrown out, three bags at a time
    She spies the old chap in the road to share her bags with
    She has bags of time

    Surrounded by his past, on a short white line
    He sits while cars pass either side, takes his time
    Trying to remember one better day
    A while ago when people stopped to hear him say

    Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
    Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes

    Now she has walked enough through rainy town
    She rests her bag against his and sits down
    She's trying to remember one better day
    A while ago when people stopped to hear her say

    Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
    Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes
    Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
    Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes
    The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left to lose

    Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
    Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes
    The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left to lose Writer/s: Cathal Joseph Smyth, Christopher John Foreman, Daniel Mark Woodgate, Graham Mcpherson, Lee Jay Thompson, Mark Bedford, Mark William Bedford, Michael Barson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 1

  • Ian from Isle Of Wight Arlington House was originally a Victorian workhouse where the poor were sent to live , in the 1920s it was still essentially a work house though not quite as arcane , it was a place where unmarried mothers of the working class were sent to give birth , one of my uncles was born there !
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