Love Waste Company

Can you see the spirits out there
Will you help? will you walk on by?
Do you think when you should be sleeping?
Do you stay when you should be leaving?

Can you read the statements?
All scribbled in a muddled tongue
Can you hear it trying to shout out
In silence, screaming from broken lungs

If you're at a loose end
On Saturday pick those bits of me
From the skips out the back of
The love waste company
Salvage all my dreams

Can believe those lights are shining
Calling me to a place like thunder
Still I rush towards the light
And watch a story first born then torn asunder

If you're at a loose end
On Saturday pick those bits of me
From the skips out the back of
The love waste company
Salvage all my dreams
It seems like only Wednesday
When the boys from the freedom cemetery
Rolled in, gracious with their shovels
They couldn't break my troubles

I've been wondering lately whose been standing in my shoes
I've been wondering lately why I don't know my name
Sometimes it can feel like I'm lost on the slide way
Hold my broken hand and watch me try

If you're at a loose end
On Saturday pick those bits of me
From the skips out the back of
The love waste company
You can spare me from these wretched scenes
It seems like only yesterday
When the boys rolled in from the freedom cemetery
Gentle with their shovels
They laid to rest my troubles in the land
And no-one's taking me home

Salvage all my dreams
When the boys from the freedom cemetery say farewell
To the founders of the love waste company
And leave their shovels gently on the ground for the last time