{Verses 1-9: Charles Bissell.}

[Verse 1]
Mineral spring road
A house for 13 grand but more is probably owed
Market isn't fair
To row over row of red houses there

[Verse 2]
Children with chalk
Trace squares around discarded lotto cards on the walk
Someone's losing bet
(a)fraid you're not leaving old Reading yet

[Verse 3]
(for) years keeping track
Of every slight, family slap & secret attack
More like rebel war
As shell follows round to the second floor

[Verse 4]
Oceans rose up
A warning left in leaves left in Eirinn Go...[thumb-worn] cup(s)/
Of Death as stick-up man
Bearing (your) ashes to ocean by coffee can