Well I met him outside a hostel door He said I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours I know you think it's shifty for a man in his fifties To be sleeping in a hostel dorm But I used to be a welder by trade Used to work by the water where the ships get made But no ship yard will take me now My hands are too shaky now And I've spend all my money before I get paid And I said David, don't you think it's strange While you were in a dark room How the world went and changed Looking in your eyes, I think you know That David, we lost you, Lost you a long time ago Oh, ooo, oh,ooo He leans his head against the hostel wall Said I have an ex-wife that doesn't hear me And a kid that doesn't call And every month I'm call short With my ****ing child support And the court says that I'm reckless and irresponsible Cause it was never part of the plan To be a middle aged man To be sat outside a hostel, Shaking stranger's hands But I've drunk away my wealth now I'm a picture of bad health And I'm a shadow of a shadow of a former self And I said: David, don't you think it's strange For years you’re walking And how the world went and changed I hear it in your voice I think you know That David we lost you, Lost you a long time ago Oh, ooo, oh,ooo And I said, David, Don’t you think that it’s strange While you were sleeping How the world went and changed Looking in your eyes, I think you know David, we lost you, Lost you a long time ago
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