A compact life with everything nearby
A perfect house with a garden beneath gray skies
Our homeplace to the end
No better place for our children

A good place for us to nest A great place for all to visit
With fresh air from far west The settings are perfect
The place to live has still not been the subject of a conflict

Nearby has its problems as every modern place
Rude kids, drugs and criminality are everywhere nowadays
To this place I see no alternative
Where I like it best is where we live

A good place for us to nest A great place for all to visit
With fresh air from far west The settings are perfect
The place to live has still not been the subject of a conflict

If you ask me whether nearby can ever be too close
Of course closeness sometimes surrounds our house
With a clearness that can be too big a dose
For a fish slightly bigger than average

From time to time even I get struck by uncertainness
Don't you be around and break my stubbornness

A good place for us to nest A great place for all to visit
With fresh air from far west The settings are perfect
The place to live has still not been the subject of a conflict

SCRAPPED
Nearby Nearby - We have everything eye to eye
What can your city offer me that I haven't allready got here?
Only fancy useless things ; do you really like gangs, robbing and opera?
My children will never be southerners while I am around
There won't exist a search for the emptier ground