“Neptune City” was written, composed and performed by Nicole Atkins as the titular track of her 2007 album. The song explores the feeling of returning to the place where a person grew up as a ghost, perhaps at their own funeral. It is a song about regrets and making the most of the place you were bo...
You can't see me from this view
All the way down
Trailing the procession
I'll hide out a few more days
Then I'll be leaving this place soon
Our hearts are singing out just for you
A cemetery song for summer
And if we knew just what we could do
A cemetery song we'd not sing
I'm sitting over Neptune City
I used to love it
It used to be pretty
I'll come down, walk around a while
Until I'm sure I can never go home again
Maybe if I paid attention
I could learn to love the landscape I was born to
By the river in the rain
Let it make me new again
Our hearts are singing out just for you
A cemetery song for summer
And if we knew just what we could do
A cemetery song we'd not sing
I'm sitting over Neptune City
I used to love it
It used to be pretty
I'll come down, walk around a while
Until I'm sure I can never go home again
Neptune City was written by Nicole Atkins.
Neptune City was produced by Tore Johansson.