Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sweet Arcadia, artist - Saint Etienne. Date of issue: 01.06.2017
Song language: English
Sweet Arcadia |
| The trains took us away from the smoke, from Fenchurch Street |
| Through Limehouse, West Ham, Barking, and over the fields |
| To Laindon, Dunton, Pitsea, Benfleet |
| To Southend-on-Sea |
| 39 miles and 40 chains over the fields, through the thick clay |
| We took over the neglected meadow, the untidy farmyard, and overgrown hedgerow |
| Smallholdings--homemade, handmade |
| Makeshift towns, a land for the people, a home of your own |
| Sweet Arcadia |
| Tumbledown shacks and tumbledown cliffs |
| A refuge from the rent book |
| We built our own shops, we built our own cinemas, we named our own houses: |
| The Haven, Cozy Nook, Landsbury, Beerer John, Tellsville, Bon Ami |
| And when the waters the breached the seawalls, we moved back inland |
| Into Surrey: Box Hill, Normandy, Selsdon Vale |
| Into Kent: Cliffsend, Seasalter, Dungeness |
| Into Sussex: Jurys Gap, Pett Level, Peacehaven |
| Sweet Albion, makeshift, make do and mend |
| We built mock-Tudor sheds and houses from train carriages |
| From asbestos and corrugated iron |
| We took your land, and we made it our land |
| Sweet Arcadia |
| Ohh, oh, Sweet Arcadia |
| Ohh, oh, Sweet Arcadia |
| Ohh, oh, Sweet Arcadia |
| Ohh, oh, Sweet Arcadia |
| Ohh, oh, Sweet Arcadia |
| Ohh, oh, Sweet Arcadia |