Lyrics
NORTHERN COUNTY
(Timothy Brickley and David Rheins)
She came from a northern county
where people don’t have a lot to say
about they way they are living or they way they will die.
She moved down to this semi-city
where people try to talk about what they feel,
which isn’t always anything worth talking about tonight.
She came from a northern county
and stares into the wild, dark night.
She looks at me with understanding,
all that ends well ends tonight.
We turn our back on second childhood,
when god was good and fair was fair
and people could be counted on with flowers in their hair.
Now little kids in leather and dog jewelry
dance this dance of disarray
but no-one reads the paper and don’t have much to say.
But she came from a northern county
and knows that nowhere is the best.
You can’t change what never happened
but you can play with the rest.
(One night she told me:
we could be anywhere.
Time is a circle and we are there.
This could be anywhere, anywhere.
All you got to know is you are
there.)
She came from a northern county
where the land is flat and it’s always grey.
If you don’t face your monster
it won’t pack up and go away, away, away…
She came from a northern county.
Copyright 1986, Timothy Brickley & David Rheins.
