You don't pay the rent 

You don't know how it feels 

To be one step from poverty 

But when I'm alone 

I smile to myself 

Though the room is draped in shadow 

And I draw with the sun 

'Cos in the night, colours run 

And this fight had hardly begun 

Now it's over 



And I am the boat 

No one upon me floats 

And I am the tree 

Nothing grows under me 



I draw with the sun 

'Cos in the night, colours run 

And this life had hardly begun 

Now it's over 



And I wait in the rain 

As you leave on your train 

It's so long till we meet again 

And I'll miss you 

And I'll haunt you 

But I am the boat 

I am the boat