Broken Down In Broken Town

Broken down in broken town

Call the lifeguard to watch me drown

Send the boys around

I'm broken down in broken town



My CV says I watch TV

I haven't worked since 1993

Send the boys for me

I'm broken down in broken town



In broken town where nothing ever works

It get's into your veins and stains your shirts

Blinds your ambition and kicks it to death

Tunnels into your vision till nothing is left



Child overboard, child ignored

In a children's ward, 1994, 1994

Life's to short for a life support

That's broken down



In broken town where nothing ever works

Misspent youth on the roof of a church

Your birthdays are belated, your toys are dead

Board, frustrated and poisoned with lead



I don't want to stagger into mental health

Following a shadow of my former self

If only I believed that I could break away



But I know I'll never leave

And so I guess, I'll stay forever

Broken down in broken town