I was walking one day through the big lights
Wondering when the world became so tired
Bottles of vodka flashed as the Coca-Cola sign shone
Like moonlight and I wondered
When the world beame so wired

Even the clearing of the streets
It was all tiled and in the corner stood a tree in a cage
And in the screen on the side of a skyscrpaer
Stood a war child nestled in amongts the stocks
The shares and the sports scores of the day

I thought, don't leave your life too long
It's gone before it's done if you hide away
I was travelling one day to find a small town
For I'd hear that it was far enough away

Arrived late in the night and there was no sound
I looked forward to the breaking of the day
With the sunrise I headed for the ocean
For its where I find the cleanest air to brewath
Every road down a factory had stolen
And the smoke it billowed out and blocked the sea

I thought, don't leave your life too long
It's gone before its done if you hide away
I thought, don't leave your life too long
It's gone before its done if you hide away

I was travelling one day down in Mexico
In towns where peoiploe purely work to eat
There's a shine in the eyes of those that let go
And that shine was like a song that sang to me

It said, don't leave your life too long
It's gone before its done if you hide away
I thought, don't leave your life too long
It's gone before its done if you hide away