No Place Like Traverse Town

I have explored the seas

And the Cave of Wonders

Seen the Coliseum

And the jungle of Tarzan

But there's no place like Traverse Town

No, there's no place like Traverse Town

There's a hole in the sky like a garbage pit

And the souls of the worlds now inhabit it

Where the bands of rebels are tightly knit

And it goes by the name of Traverse Town

And the Heartless crawl through the streets' debris

Turning into a knight when the clock strikes three

On the innocents' hearts they feed

I too have scaled the heights of Hollow Bastion

I've been swallowed by a whale, gotten lost in Wonderland

But there's no place like Traverse Town

I beg your indulgence; my quest is far from easy

For in the once familiar streets I see a flock of

ghastly shadows everywhere

Forgive me

There was an island I called home

And it was beautiful

I knew a girl back at home

She is the reason that I roam

And she was beautiful, and she was paradise

And I was naïve

There was another boy who saw

That she was beautiful

So when she vanished in the storm

And when the islands were transformed

He tossed our friendship to the side

And took a villain as his guide

But she was gone

So soft

So young

So lost and oh so beautiful

The girl, sir, was she ever found?

Her whereabouts might surprise you

As they did me when I found out

There's a hole in the sky like a great black pit

And it is filled with people who don't know when to quit

And the name of that place is Traverse Town