Take me down to the back side of town Down by the railroad tracks I don't want to see what they are trying to show me I want to see what's slipped through the holes and the cracks And you can take what is new All I want is something true
You can block the sun you can stand still while we run And make better time with every step we take I thought I could live on what I had to give But now you tell me I've made some mistake Am I the one who's been misled Holding on to the hopes that the others left for dead
Chorus: What will we do when our strength and our money's been spent Will our love survive by some strange accident I want to hear you say When something is broken or something is bent I want to hear you say We can make do with whatever is left
We swore on the buttons of our coats And the laces of our shoes Our backs to the wind a broken world ours to mend We didn't have much else to lose Just a song to sing If we've still got that well ain't that something?
Chorus:
Take the old make it new Make it over, make it do or do without Take what you find from what others left behind The ashes and the bones and the echo of that shouted word That I still don't know But somehow I still cannot let it go