Soho So Long - Marc Almond

So cruel the past

For in my mind

It always lasts too long

Soho so bad

You drove me mad

But everything I loved about you

Almost gone

I worked your clip joints

And your clubs

In a sordid light

I spent half the night

Dancing to your

Cheap sentimental songs

Somehow Soho and I were one

Soho so what

Soho so sad

Soho so gone

Soho so long

I gave you everything I had

Gave you everything I had

We finished on the day

The Coffe Pot

Became the Sandwich Scene

The old Piano Bar

I still sing there in my dreams

Hold me in your weathered arms

Now your exotic charms have gone

So long the red light life

Bring on the dancing girls

Kick out the chorus boys

Soho so what

Soho so sad

Soho so gone

Soho so long

All the good times that we had

All the good times that we had

Soho so long

I gave you everytihng I had

Is the Colony still there?

The Golden Girl has gone elsewhere

Rital’s piano bar

New Piccadilly Eats

The Old Casino Archer Street

The Green Carnation’s where we’ll meet

And maybe there we’ll fall in love

But until then this song I’ll sing

To Paul Raymond the Soho King

Soon all the cities’ll be as one

No use crying when they’re gone

Soho so long

Soho so what

Soho so sad

Soho so gone

Soho farewell

Soho goodbye

Soho so long

Soho so long