Smith Street wishes it was Lygon
Brunswick Street wants it much more
Even Lygon Street wants to be
just like it was before
Monash says it doesn’t care
but no-one believes a word
Melbourne just sits and yearns
to be Cambridge or Oxford
Crown wishes it was Las Vegas
Ron wishes he was Moe Green
The Yarra wishes it was the Thames
we dream what we could have been
Do Paris roads have Melbourne ends
Does Sydney dream that it’s Prahran
Does Giuliani want to be Jeff
do they all feel like also rans?
Nero sat there with his fiddle
with his favourite Rome did burn
I’ll stand here with my guitar
while my hometown Melbourne yearns
and yearns and yearns