Die Trying

You can make a fire out of anything

You can warm your hands on the plastic burning on the frozen ground

When the only word is ‘when’

You can make a camp out of anywhere

Polythene sheets and rope until they come to pull it down

You just start again

Winter storms and the snow flying

Razor wire and the gulls crying

Cross the water or die trying

You can make a little hope out of anything

Follow the latest rumour to an empty concrete yard

On the edge of town

Where there’s always someone to take your money

There’s always someone to make a promise and then go to ground

Another face to forget

Winter storms and the snow flying

Razor wire and the gulls crying

Cross the water or die trying

You can lie awake through the long dark night

And count the trucks as they go passing by

The ships loading up and sailing out for the promise land

You can listen to the wind as it whips up the sand from the dunes

And dream and dream that it blows and blows and blows

All the fences in the world down to the ground

You can end the journey anywhere

You can lose your hold on the axle frame and fall into the road

And under the wheels

You can fall right through the world and disappear

Playing a game of hide-and-seek just one too many times

Until the time that you’re not found

Winter storms and the snow flying

Razor wire and the gulls crying

Cross the water or die trying