Whatever's Left

Take me down to the back side of town
 Down by the railroad tracks
 I don't want to see what they are trying to show me
 I want to see what's slipped through the holes and the cracks
 And you can take what is new
 All I want it something true
 You can block the sun you can stand still while we run
 And make better time with every step we take
 I thought I could live on what I had to give
 But now you tell me I've made some mistake
 Am I the one who's been misled
 Holding on to the hopes that the others left for dead
 Chorus:
 What will we do when our strength and our money's been spent
 Will our love survive by some strange accident
 I want to hear you say
 When something is broken or something is bent
 I want to hear you say
 We can make do with whatever is left
 We swore on the buttons of our coats
 And the laces of our shoes
 Our backs to the wind a broken world ours to mend
 We didn't have much else to lose
 Just a song to sing
 If we've still got that well ain't that something?
 Chorus:
 Take the old make it new
 Make it over, make it do or do without
 Take what you find from what others left behind
 The ashes and the bones and the echo of that shouted word
 That I still don't know
 But somehow I still cannot let it go
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