Frank Tovey - Pa**ing through lyrics

When i was just a little boy I played with another wretch We'd go down to the union can*l To see what we could catch Cast the hook, line and sinker Then sit down and wish No barges pa**ed this way no more Nor did any fish How do you do Can't stop now We're just pa**ing through The wasteland was our playground And the railway-track I told my friend one day i'd leave And never would come back We'd watch those trucks a-rolling past Never stopping at our station I never knew from where they came Nor their destination How do you do Can't stop now We're just pa**ing through Then the excavations Were started here one day Before i could spell 'envirament' They'd built a motorway Now we have a flyover And an under pa** Railway trains and open drains Does no one think of us? How do you do Can't stop now We're just pa**ing through I left that place in '75 And never did return Ain't got no time for nostalg'a For any bridges i have burned But once i pa**ed on that motorway And at the concrete i did stare I wondered if my childhood friend Was still living there