Writers: Leo Sayer & Alan Tarney imagine the space as it used to be there were fields of corn there were big oak trees but a woman in a suit bulldozed it clear built a concrete world full of crocodile tears and we don't understand that we all have a part in a government plan it's a hard shot to be the people in the place that the world forgot in a paperback town but I know I know I know we can be free though no guardian angel up above has kept an eye on me and at night I listen to the sirens moan for a broken heart from a broken home so many people are so alone in a paperback town and one day soon I'm gonna write it all down I live my life in a paperback town oooh--in a paperback town oooh--in a paperback town I'm gonna take my troubles gonna pack my bags gonna fly my kite for a different flag I'll sing my song From the top of the hill when the night is cold and the wind is chill 'cos I don't understand why I should be part of another man's plan it's a hard shot for the people in the place that the world forgot in a paperback town live and die here in a paperback town wonder why here in a paperback town but I know I know I know we can be free | though no guardian angel up above has kept an eye on me and at night I listen to the rain fall down and I shake with the fear that we all will drown but my words don't even make a sound in a paperback town and one day soon I'm gonna write it all down I live my life in a paperback town
Writers: Leo Sayer & Alan Tarney imagine the space as it used to be there were fields of corn there were big oak trees but a woman in a suit bulldozed it clear built a concrete world full of crocodile tears and we don't understand that we all have a part in a government plan it's a hard shot to be the people in the place that the world forgot in a paperback town but I know I know I know we can be free though no guardian angel up above has kept an eye on me and at night I listen to the sirens moan for a broken heart from a broken home so many people are so alone in a paperback town and one day soon I'm gonna write it all down I live my life in a paperback town oooh--in a paperback town oooh--in a paperback town I'm gonna take my troubles gonna pack my bags gonna fly my kite for a different flag I'll sing my song From the top of the hill when the night is cold and the wind is chill 'cos I don't understand why I should be part of another man's plan it's a hard shot for the people in the place that the world forgot in a paperback town live and die here in a paperback town wonder why here in a paperback town but I know I know I know we can be free | though no guardian angel up above has kept an eye on me and at night I listen to the rain fall down and I shake with the fear that we all will drown but my words don't even make a sound in a paperback town and one day soon I'm gonna write it all down I live my life in a paperback town
