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