when i was seventeen
i was chasing after dreams
in southport
i had to get away
or end up in a nursing home alone
when i was seventeen
i had a special love
and southport
didn´t seem a bad place after all

on the promenade
the carnival facade is peeling
and the floral clock
has stopped a moment caught in time
such a sad decay
well, it´s something like the way i´m feeling
for such a dream so big
southport seemed a little bit too small

and i was still naive
i really did believe in magic
thought i had found a love
and treasured it above all else
but then i looked beyond
i saw another life was waiting
i was chasing after dreams
i had to find them by myself

i hope you understand
such a love could never be
the sea has turned my soul
and it aches to be free
i will always think
of southport at the fair
summer on the beach
the fun that we had there

with southport in my mind
but las vegas in my heart
i set out to search for the stars
but every dream i dream
follows where you´ve been
and it´s tearing my heart apart

when i was seventeen
i left to find my dream
from southport
january came
i blame myself for out goodbyes
nothing is so sad
as the sea side out of season
and nothing is so sad
as you and i

when i was seventeen
i was chasing after dreams
in southport
i had to get away
or end up in a nursing home alone
and now it seems i´d never been
a boy of seventeen
in southport
it didn´t last
a lifetime passed
a love outgrown

was it all a dream
or was it all for real
i´m standing on the pier
i´m trying not to feel
the tears are in my eyes
your face is in the sand
i´m trying to look down
i´m reaching out my hand
i´m falling to the wind
i´m waiting for the sea
but the sea is never in
it´s never in for me
in southport
(it´s never in for me)
(repeat and fade)