I was only gonna stay here for the summer Then i thought id get away Thought i could stay with my brother But my brother thought a different way So i got a job in the arcades Where the children play and the grown men fight And i tried to find an honest smile In a seaside town at night They come here with their twopenny pieces And they swim in the greybellied sea They all write postcards to their nieces And they save all their lies for me I walk around the bay awhile When the wind is low and the moon is high It's so hard to find an honest smile In a seaside town at night My heart is always out of season I'll never be what i want to be He told me lies and i believed em What must my mother think of me I'll catch a train to the city Just put me on any old flight It's so hard to find an honest smile In a seaside town at night