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Life's For The Living

from All The Little Lights by Passenger

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lyrics

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 and 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 deams 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. 

Til 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. 

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from All The Little Lights, track released July 22, 2020
Written By Mike Rosenberg
Produced by Mike Rosenberg & Chris Vallejo
Mixed by Chris Vallejo

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