Oh Aire and Calder
Dull dirty rivers
Smile Mona Lisa
Fire in the atmosphere
Blow Aire and Calder
Bleak grey melancholia
Go somewhere or other
Whisper to me on the tide
Between the here and now
Where the sky hits the ground
In faded splendour rise
Saw your reflection in the steel pile
Then realised it was mine
Roll like the thunder
Goole to Castleford
Then through the floodplains take me
Lie like love's big swollen eyes
Oh Aire and Calder
Life may come and go
Though time lasts forever
Luck was never on our side
Between the here and now
Where the sky hits the ground
In faded splendour rise
Saw your reflection in the steel pile
Then realised it was mine
Between here and now
When the smile hits a foul
In faded splendour rise
Saw your reflection in the steel pile
Then realised it was mine