[id:$00000000] [ti:Life's for the Living (Acoustic)] [ar:Passenger] [00:00.43]Life's for the Living (Acoustic) - Passenger [00:16.64]Well grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic [00:21.13]Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic [00:25.32]The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain [00:33.63]While laundrettes cleaned clothes high heals rub toes [00:37.75]Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows [00:42.30]Dressed in their suits and their boots well they all look the same [00:50.79]I took myself down to the cafe to find all the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl [00:59.53]And carved out a poem above the urinal that read [01:07.71]Don't you cry for the lost [01:10.27]Smile for the living [01:12.70]Get what you need and give what you're given [01:17.00]Life's for the living so live it [01:20.25]Or you're better off dead [01:37.79]While the evening pulled the moon out of it's packet [01:41.96]Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket [01:46.21]We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell of the wall [01:54.54]While pigeon's pecked trains sparks flew like planes [01:58.66]The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains [02:02.59]And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call [02:11.28]And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town [02:15.08]Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown [02:19.27]With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said [02:27.45]Don't you cry for the lost [02:29.94]Smile for the living [02:32.06]Get what you need and give what you're given [02:35.87]Life's for the living so live it [02:39.18]Or you're better off dead [02:56.43]Well I'm sick of this town this blind man's forage [03:00.79]They take your dreams down and stick them in storage [03:04.74]You can have them back son when you've paid off your mortgage and loans [03:12.98]Oh hell with this place I'll go it my own way [03:17.16]I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway [03:21.28]Someday someone must be going my way home [03:29.09]Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car [03:33.40]With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars [03:37.52]And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread [03:45.76]Don't you cry for the lost [03:48.25]Smile for the living [03:50.43]Get what you need and give what you're given [03:54.05]You know life's for the living so live it [03:57.55]Or you're better off dead [04:02.73]Don't you cry for the lost [04:05.78]Smile for the living [04:08.28]Get what you need and give what you're given [04:12.71]Life's for the living so live it [04:15.52]Or you're better off dead