Passenger ☆ Life’s For The Living

Well grey clouds wrapped round
the town like elastic
Cars stood like toys made of
Taiwanese plastic
The boy laughed at the spastic
dancing around in the rain
While laundrettes cleaned
clothes high heals rub toes
Puddles splashed huddles of bus
stop crows
Dressed in their suits and their
boots well they all look the same
I took myself down to the cafe
to find all the boys lost in
books and crackling vinyl
And carved out a poem above the
urinal that read
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what
you’re given
Life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead
While the evening pulled the
moon out of it’s packet
Stars shone like buttons on an
old man’s jacket
We needed a nail but we tacked
it ’til it fell of the wall
While pigeon’s pecked trains
sparks flew like planes
The rain showed the rainbows in
the oil stains
And we all had new iPhones but
no one had no one to call
And I stumbled down to the
stomach of the town
Where the widow takes memories
to slowly drown
With a hand to the sky and a
mist in her eye she said
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what
you’re given
Life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead
Well I’m sick of this town
this blind man’s forage
They take your dreams down and
stick them in storage
You can have them back son when
you’ve paid off your mortgage
and loans
Oh hell with this place
I’ll go it my own way
I’ll stick out my thumb and I
trudge down the highway
Someday someone must be going my
way home
Till then I’ll make my bed from
a disused car
With a mattress of leaves and a
blanket of stars
And I’ll stitch the words into
my heart with a needle and thread
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what
you’re given
You know life’s for the living
so live it
Or you’re better off dead
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what
you’re given
Life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead