Flesh & Bones

It's the first day of spring with clean air in the wind

And everything is just like it should be

The roads are jammed up with lorries and cars

And i'm standing in the street with my hand upon my heart

This is the place that i used to know

But its been wiped away and put up for show

I'm all alone in the middle of a crowd

I open my mouth and scream a silent shout

I jumped out of bed, had my first cigarette

It made my body feel sick but helped my mind relax

The cranes are moving on the skyline

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap

These times they are a changing but i'm being left behind

Everybody's running, trying to catch up their lives

The hypocrites on the television screens

Are trying to disguise what they really mean

They say things are getting better when we know they're gettin' worse

While they're buying bigger guns from a shrinking purse

The stink and sweat and the flesh and bones

Have been replaced and are being sold

Not for melting down for pills and soap

But as draught stoppers to keep out the cold

Well I jumped out of bed, had my first cigarette

It made my body feel sick but helped my mind relax

The cranes are moving in the twilight

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap

These times they are a changing but i'm being left behind

Everybody's running, trying to catch up their lives

The cranes are moving in the twilight

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap

The cranes are moving in the twilight

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap

The cranes are moving in the twilight

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap

The cranes are moving in the twilight

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap

The cranes are moving in the twilight

And the water is dripping from the kitchen tap