Hometown Glory...

This is not the right day to write about this song and its implications, yet I feel I should share, let's start with the lyric and video, and take it from there...



I've been walking in the same way as I did
Missing out the cracks in the pavement
And tutting my heel and strutting my feet
"Is there anything I can do for you dear? Is there anyone I can call?"
"No and thank you, please Madam. I ain't lost, just wandering"

Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
Round my hometown
Ooh the people I've met
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of my world

I like it in the city when the air is so thick and opaque
I love to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades
I like it in the city when two worlds collide
You get the people and the government
Everybody taking different sides

Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Shows that we ain't gonna take it
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united

Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
Round my hometown
Ooh the people I've met

Are the wonders of my world (4x)


Cascais, my hometown,that place that watched me ground, that in a way moulded me into who I am...
The beauty of one's hometown, the purity our former selves, the feeling of pure potential, the essence of our soul reflected all around, the simplicity of being, the friendships, relationships, the bumps of life, our rises and our falls...
A place of simple synthesis and complex feelings, a place that became too small for oneself and yet too big to be just part of our past, the stories that defines us, that state who we are without any need for analysis...
This song brought the memories to the surface, the world traveller will always cherish the hometown, for what it is, for what it means, for what it contains, for what it describes, for what it defines...
The different people, the different buildings, the different scenarios, they simply show that nothing stays still, nor us, nor the world, we need change as much as we need the comfort of belonging, change is the iterations of one's self over a period, yet the origin is there, to know where we are going we need to know where we are coming from, I agree with these words.
Hello world, my name is Pedro I come from Cascais...

(I will add a picture as soon as I go to Portugal ;))