[ti:Life's For the Living] [ar:Passenger] [al:All The Little Lights] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Life's For the Living - Passenger [00:17.03]Well grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic [00:21.32]Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic [00:25.38]The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain [00:33.21]While laundrettes cleaned clothes [00:35.26]High heals rub toes [00:37.65]Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows [00:41.62]Dressed in their suits and their boots well [00:44.59]They all look the same [00:49.80]I took myself down to the cafe to find [00:52.78]All the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl [00:58.03]And carved out a poem above the urinal that read [01:05.52]Don't you cry for the lost [01:08.09]Smile for the living [01:10.60]Get what you need and give what you're given [01:14.25]Life's for the living so live it [01:17.53]Or you're better off dead [01:34.77]While the evening pulled the moon out of it's packet [01:38.81]Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket [01:42.92]We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell of the wall [01:50.90]While pigeon's pecked trains [01:53.00]Sparks flew like planes [01:55.14]The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains [01:59.07]And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call [02:07.56]And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town [02:11.23]Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown [02:14.99]With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said [02:23.26]Don't you cry for the lost [02:25.79]Smile for the living [02:27.87]Get what you need and give what you're given [02:31.85]Life's for the living so live it [02:35.07]Or you're better off dead [03:08.63]Well I'm sick of this town [03:10.81]This blind man's forage [03:12.85]They take your dreams down and stick them in storage [03:16.84]You can have them back son [03:18.74]When you've paid off your mortgage and loans [03:24.96]Oh hell with this place [03:27.03]I'll go it my own way [03:28.94]I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway [03:33.38]Someday someone must be going my way home [03:40.99]Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car [03:45.33]With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars [03:49.27]And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread [03:57.43]Don't you cry for the lost [03:59.85]Smile for the living [04:01.73]Get what you need and give what you're given [04:05.74]You know life's for the living so live it [04:09.00]Or you're better off dead [04:13.83]Don't you cry for the lost [04:16.76]Smile for the living [04:19.48]Get what you need and give what you're given [04:24.26]Life's for the living so live it [04:29.10]Or you're better off dead