Ever since i was eight or nine

I've been standing on the shoreline

Always waiting 

For something lasting

Loose your hunger, you loose your way

Get confused and you fade away


Oh this town

Kills you when you are young

Oh this town

Kills you when you are young


I'm not the boy i used to be

This town has got the youth of me

All eyes turn hollow

From the work of sorrow


Standing on the paving

By the office building

They've got so much to do

Never time for you


We are shadows

Oh we're shadows

Shadows in the alley


You die when you're young

You die when you're young

You die when you're young