I linked to a Passenger song (Golden Leaves) on the 17 May. I think it’s time for another one
Passenger Life For the Living. I’ve gone for the acoustic version
The lyrics are below
Well grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic
Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic
The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain
While laundrettes cleaned clothes, high heals rub toes
Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
Dressed in their suits and their boots
Well they all look the same
I took myself down to the cafe to find all
The boys lost in books and crackling vinyl
And carved out a poem above the urinal that read
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what you’re given
Life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead
While the evening pulled the moon out of it’s packet
Stars shone like buttons on an old man’s jacket
We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell of the wall
While pigeon’s pecked trains, sparks flew like planes
The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
And we all had new iPhone’s but no one had no one to call
And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town
Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown
With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what you’re given
Life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead
Well I’m sick of this town, this blind man’s forage
They take your dreams down and stick them in storage
You can have them back son when you’ve paid off
Your mortgage and loans
Oh hell with this place, I’ll go it my own way
I’ll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway
Someday someone must be going my way home
Till then I’ll make my bed from a disused car
With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars
And I’ll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what you’re given
You know life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead
Here you go Dawn, its nice to see someone else posting on this thread. I hope you can learn how to post videos yourself and then continue to post songs that mean something to you
I have been asked to share a song called Breathe with you all on here. Breathe was created by Arleen and her friends last year after Arleen found a book she had written in which captured how she was feeling following the death of her 20 year old Son, back in 2006.
The images within the video feature a number of her Son’s favourite places - she hopes the song helps some of you.
Thank you for continuing this thread and for the support you show one another by sharing songs that mean a lot to you.
Thank you Megan, that is a beautiful song which we can all relate to. I almost lost myself in the instrumental at the beginning. Music and poetry are very important to me and have helped me enormously with my grief. x
Just on the radio. Isn’t it strange how a song can suddenly take on a whole new meaning? I found myself singing along with such passion. I will make my own kind of music…x
It’s about affairs more than death but I find myself listening to it many many many times this year as so many of the lyrics are applicable and it is a beautiful sad song
