David

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"
"Hands are too shaky now"
"And I've spend all my money before I get paid"
I said
"David, don't you think it's strange?"
"While you were in your 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"

Ohh-oh, Oh-oh
Ohh-oh, Oh-oh
Ohh-oh, Oh-oh

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 caught short"
"With my fucking 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 strangers hands"
"But I've drunk away my wealth"
"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 were 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"

Ohh-oh, Oh-oh
Ohh-oh, Oh-oh
Ohh-oh, Oh-oh

And Ohh-oh, Oh-oh
Ohh-oh, Oh-oh
Ohh-oh, Oh-oh

And I said David
"Don't you think that it's strange?"
"While you where sleeping"
"How the world went and changed"
"Looking in your eyes"
"I think you know"
"David, we lost you"
"We lost you a long time ago"