09 - Passenger - Life's For The Living

[00:15.15] Well grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic

[00:19.90] Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic

[00:24.14] The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain

[00:31.89] While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heels rub toes

[00:36.65] Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows

[00:40.65] Dressed in their suits and their boots well they all look the same

[00:48.90] I took myself down to the cafe to find all the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl

[00:56.90] And carved out a poem above the urinal that read

[01:04.64] Don't you cry for the lost

[01:07.15] Smile for the living

[01:09.15] Get what you need and give what you're given

[01:13.40] Life's for the living so live it

[01:16.15] Or you're better off dead

[01:33.90] While the evening pulled the moon out of its packet

[01:37.65] Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket

[01:42.14] We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell off the wall

[01:49.90] While pigeons pecked trains, sparks flew like planes

[01:54.39] The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains

[01:58.03] And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call

[02:05.79] And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town

[02:10.54] Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown

[02:14.54] With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said

[02:22.04] Don't you cry for the lost

[02:25.04] Smile for the living

[02:27.03] Get what you need and give what you're given

[02:30.78] Life's for the living so live it

[02:33.78] Or you're better off dead

[03:07.04] Well I'm sick of this town, this blind man's forage

[03:11.79] They take your dreams down and stick them in storage

[03:16.04] You can have them back son when you've paid off your mortgage and loans

[03:23.78] Oh hell with this place, I'll go it my own way

[03:28.03] I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway

[03:32.28] Someday someone must be going my way home

[03:40.29] Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car

[03:44.53] With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars

[03:48.78] And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread

[03:55.78] Don't you cry for the lost

[03:59.03] Smile for the living

[04:01.04] Get what you need and give what you're given

[04:05.03] You know life's for the living so live it

[04:08.04] Or you're better off dead

[04:13.29] Don't you cry for the lost

[04:15.29] Smile for the living

[04:18.28] Get what you need and give what you're given

[04:23.04] Life's for the living so live it

[04:27.93] Or you're better off dead