The Smith Street Band - East London Summer [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Dictated to by empty streets
Chain stores and big machines
The snow falls hard on soft debris
And I know this town don't envy me
And the locals all seem nice enough
But they cross streets I dare not walk
I'll drive the extra couple blocks
And stop when I am told to stop

And everyone in this shitty bar is just
Trying to sink their teeth into everybody else
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer

Nothing make you feel more alive than being surrounded by things
That have recently died
And on this goddamn bitter cold late November night
The kids put on their coats to go see the Christmas lights
In the urban undeveloped wastelands of Michigan
Sleet falls on my jacket teeth are chattering again
And the locals all drink and love, fight when they have drunk too much
The kids look like they grew up knowing how to take a punch
And the month old front pages from local newspapers dance
On the lonely winds around empty lobbies of once grand buildings

[Chorus]
And everyone in this shitty bar is just
Trying to sink their teeth into everybody else
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer
Let's be anything let's be lovers
We'll take care of one another
Live like the people I looked up to in the
Time when I was happier
Give me East London summer
Give me North Melbourne summer

And now I'm smoking weed in New York City
In the land of happy-ever-afters and dreams come true
I pass out piss drunk on the floor of a motel room
Wake up shivering and thinking about you
And I'm tired
I'm so tired

[Chorus]