Lakeside Park

Nice bittersweet tune by Rush I listened to a thousand times around 1987 or so. Lots of memories mashed up in this song, memories of Seaside Heights, Wildwood, Lake George …

Midway hawkers calling “try your luck with me”

Merry-go-round wheezing the same old melody

A thousand ten-cent wonders, who could ask for more?

A pocketful of silver, the key to heaven’s door

Lakeside Park

Willows in the breeze

Lakeside Park

So many memories

Laughing rides

Midway lights

Shining stars

On summer nights

Days of barefoot freedom racing with the waves

Nights of starlit secrets, crackling driftwood flames

Drinking by the lighthouse, smoking on the pier

Still we saw the magic was fading every year

Lakeside Park

Willows in the breeze

Lakeside Park

So many memories

Laughing rides

Midway lights

Shining stars

On summer nights

Everyone would gather

On the twenty-fourth of May

Sitting in the sand

To watch the fireworks display

Dancing fires on the beach

Singing songs together

Though it's just a memory

Some memories last forever