Barclay James Harvest - Three Weeks To Despair Lyrics
Time now an empty shellMemories in the broken glassThe daily journey to despairWhere luck's poured out till nothing's leftAnd she wants to run awayAway from the lightAnd the rain falls and the night callsIn the shadows we've all passedLife like an empty bookWith pictures that fade and dieTears in a bottle of dreamsSchemes that never lastHe wants to runaway, away from the liesAnd the rain falls and the night callsIn the shadows we've all passedHope in an empty boxReality in a paper cupEmpty in a hungry worldDid they fall or did we push?And they want to run awayAway from the fightAnd the rain falls and the night callsIn the shadows we've all passedRain falls and the night callsIn the shadows we've all passedSpoken by the homeless man:"i start about half eight in the morning, right, i do a bit of begging, like, till about nine at night-time."“there’s only one problem with the police - they keep moving me on.?“it’s hard to make friends these days, they tell me.?“i was in stockport, once, right, begging, and i was kicked in the face.?“i know i look a bit dirty and scruffy and so on.?“i haven’t had a bath now for two weeks - bad news, isn’t it? i don’t smell, do i??“all right, you’ve got to have a joke, sometimes.?“i haven’t slept for two nights, now.?“the last two places where i stopped, the kids burned it down.?“they poured petrol on a homeless guy - they set him alight.?"why can’t he go out and get a job?"Behind every tatty sleeping bagAnd cardboard box there is a human beingWith a family, a history and a personality
