Ever since i was eight or nine
 I've been standing on the shoreline
 Always waiting 
 For something lasting
 Loose your hunger, you loose your way
 Get confused and you fade away

 Oh this town
 Kills you when you are young
 Oh this town
 Kills you when you are young

 I'm not the boy i used to be
 This town has got the youth of me
 All eyes turn hollow
 From the work of sorrow

 Standing on the paving
 By the office building
 They've got so much to do
 Never time for you

 We are shadows
 Oh we're shadows
 Shadows in the alley

 You die when you're young
 You die when you're young
 You die when you're young