Barclay James Harvest - Three Weeks To Despair lyrics

Time now an empty shell Memories in the broken gla** The daily journey to despair Where luck's poured out till nothing's left And she wants to run away Away from the light And the rain falls and the night calls In the shadows we've all pa**ed Life like an empty book With pictures that fade and die Tears in a bottle of dreams Schemes that never last He wants to runaway, away from the lies And the rain falls and the night calls In the shadows we've all pa**ed Hope in an empty box Reality in a paper cup Empty in a hungry world Did they fall or did we push? And they want to run away Away from the fight And the rain falls and the night calls In the shadows we've all pa**ed Rain falls and the night calls In the shadows we've all pa**ed Spoken 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." "why can Behind every tatty sleeping bag And cardboard box there is a human being With a family, a history and a personality