So It Goes - John Illsley

Railway tracks running past the door

Just one chair and a concrete floor

Rusty cars in a council yard

Star cafe and a union bar

Life just shifted to another plain

Nothing will ever be the same

A million miles from those country roads

But that’s the life and so it goes

The wild west end

With your wild best friend

Not a lot to see

In the gallery

World of glass a world of stone

Not the place you want to be alone

Bluesmen cruise from show to show

Through the streets of Buffalo

Jack Daniels in a downtown bar

Playing tunes on a blonde guitar

Now it all seems so long ago

But that’s the life and so it goes

The wild west end

With your wild best friend

Not a lot to see

In the gallery

Now we’re dancing to a different tune

Under the glow of Harvest Moon

In your heart dreams are made

Time moves fast and memories fade

I still remember the ice and snow

On the streets of Buffalo

There’s so much we’ll never know

But that’s the life and so it goes

The wild west end

With your wild best friend

Not a lot to see

In the gallery