Crooked Town Songtext

von Paul Cleary

She lives in a crooked town
Walking the streets when the daylight fades
Healthy to the naked eye
With bruises and scratches behind the shades

He lives in a foreign town
With bad blood and anger for daily bread
Finds it hard to settle down
Go back to the jungle the tiger said

TO London and Massachusetts
We went with our hopes and dreams
Now they come from Shanghai and Lagos
But we have no room it seems

She lives in a crooked town
Where the needles are free and the wages cheap
Build it up and knock it down
A new beauty spot but its all skin deep

Hoping to fix what is broken
Floating above the day
Someday the heavens will open
And wash all her tears away

A ray of hope
Shes trapped forever in its beam
But for tonight
Theres only methadone and nightmares
In a crooked town