Duncan's old house on the corner
With the lino floors, names written on the walls
Is no place to be spending your time
And the people you'll find inside
With the their worn out lines
They trade through the night
Haven't a kind word amongst them
Don't follow them down
My dearest of friends
Don't follow them down
My nearest to kin
For where they are bound
There's no promising end
Maybe I was born too soon
Because I will think of you
In amongst those fools
They'll use you 'cause they have the power to
And the fault lies with me and not you
Because you met them through me
And you were too young to see
them for the merchants they are
Don't follow them down
My dearest of friends
Don't follow them down
My nearest to kin
For where they are bound
There's no promising end
You would do so well somewhere else
Where you need never be scared
And you can grow your hair
Long for the girls to see
There is a town by the sea
Where the people mean well
And you would soon tell
That your innocence would come at no cost
Don't follow them down
My dearest of friends
Don't follow them down
My nearest to kin
For where they are bound
There's no promising end