John Nolan - This Is How lyrics

This Is How the sun starts to climb in the eastern sky brings a quiet sleeping town back to life the lights turn from green to yellow to red the sidewalk starts filling up again a man in a black suit stands alone on a bridge wishing for a woman that will never be his the cars that pa** him by have different shapes and names they were made by different people in a thousand different places and the people who drive them don't know those names but they know where they're going because it's always the same and the sounds that they make wake the people who live in the houses along side the over crowded highways as the earth turns the sun seems to move higher in the sky eyes, mouths and doors keep opening wide an old man takes a seat in the chair on his porch to watch the young men on their way to do what they think is important and the school teachers, ditch diggers, criminals and cops take their places at the bottom and their places at the top and whatever they'll do is based on what they've done they'll live to get old or they'll live to die young and this is how we'll get what we need, what we're wanting we'll close our eyes and shoot up at the sky until we hit something