Refinery Row

When your time becomes money it has no other value

the money you make becomes time you can't use

you are motionless dead weight and the life you have wasted

is the only one given and it's wasted on you

You like smoke stacks and diesel

you like Hollywood pictures

you like fake tans and football and cable tv

And it's what you aspire to that will always define you

and it's what you will turn out to be

We could give up ourselves to the beauty around us

see if it's true that the best things are free

and have been here for ages, ah but waiting attention

and someone to choose them over pittance and greed

So you and me don't have to live in a house on Refinery Row

We could walk off our jobs and go live in a dumpster

wake up with the birds and find food in the garbage

and drink wine on a park bench

and be dirty and honest

If that's the worst that can happen then it sounds good to me

Shouldn't everyday living be some kind of wonder

with your favourite sounds and your favourite things

like the smell of the soil after sky-water soaks it

to be full of that current

and to fly in your dreams

So you and me don't have to live in a house on Refinery Row...