Three Weeks To Despair Lyrics - Barclay James Harvest

Time now an empty shell 

Memories in the broken glass 

The daily journey to despair 

Where luck's poured out till nothing's left 

And she wants to run away, away from the light 

And the rain falls and the night calls 

In the shadows we've all passed 

Life like an empty book 

With pictures that fade and die 

Tears in a bottle of dreams 

Schemes that never last 

He wants to runaway, away from the lies 

And the rain falls and the night calls 

In the shadows we've all passed 

I start about half eight in the morning, right 

I do a bit of begging, like, till about nine at night-time 

There's only one problem with the police 

They keep moving me on 

It's hard to make friends these days, they tell me 

I was in Stock port once, right, begging and I was kicked in the face 

I know I look a bit dirty and scruffy and so on 

I haven't had a bath now for two weeks bad news 

Isn't it? I don't smell, do I? 

All right, you've got to have a joke, sometimes 

The rain falls and the night calls 

In the shadows we've all passed 

Hope in an empty box 

Reality in a paper cup 

Empty in a hungry world 

Did they fall or did we push? 

They want to run away, away from the fight 

And the rain falls and the night calls 

In the shadows we've all passed 

Rain falls and the night calls 

In the shadows we've all passed 

I haven't slept for two nights, now 

The last two places where I stopped, the kids burned it down 

They poured petrol on a homeless guy they set him alight 

I start about half eight in the morning, right 

I do a bit of begging why can't he go out and get a job? 

It's hard to make friends these days, they tell me 

There's only one problem with the police, they keep moving me on 

I know I look a bit dirty and scruffy, I'm sorry about that 

They poured petrol, they poured petrol on a homeless guy 

They set him alight 

[Incomprehensible] 

I haven't slept for two nights, now 

It's hard to make friends these days, they tell me 

I haven't slept for two nights 

The last two places where I stopped, the kids burned it down 

They poured petrol on a homeless guy, they set him alight 

I start about half eight in the morning, right 

I do a bit of begging, like, till about nine at night-time