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Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Though it serves as the seat of Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Brockville is politically independent and is grouped with Leeds and Grenville for census purposes only.
Known as the "City of the 1000 Islands", Brockville is located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, directly opposite Morristown, New York, about half-way between Cornwall in the east and Kingston in the west, and roughly a 40-minute drive to the national capital of Ottawa. It is one of Ontario's oldest urban centres, and is named after the British general Sir Isaac Brock.
Indigenous peoples lived along both sides of the St. Lawrence River for thousands of years. The first people known to have encountered the Europeans in the area were the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a group distinct from and preceding Iroquois nations of the Haudenosaunee. While the explorer Cartier recorded about 200 words in their Laurentian language, the people disappeared from the area by the late 16th century. The Iroquois by then used the St. Lawrence Valley as a hunting ground.
Before the fools
Before this crazy life
Before you grew into a rusty knife
There was just me and you right at the start
Nothing back in those days could keep us apart
Something has changed it was like a hand on the clock
And now I don't know how to stop
I felt you there
Walking on moonlight
Your perfect face
Not much to fill
I want to care
But it's hard when you don't try
You'll never see
What you could have been
Beneath the stars
Over the frozen ice
You advance like a God
Each movement is so precise
But of all the crazy dumb things that we did
All of the dares we took as invincible kids
Nothing would leave a mark
Not even a scar
What have you done to fall so far?
I felt you there
Walking on moonlight
Your perfect face
Not much to fill
I want to care
But it's hard when you don't try
You'll never see
What you could have been
There was just me and you
Right at the start
What have you done to fall so far?
I felt you there
Walking on moonlight
Your perfect face
Not much to ...
I want to care
But it's hard when you don't try
You'll never know