Seagull - Sophie Barker

The streets are empty*

Everything is closed

And the night-time is waking

Where does everybody go

So many lonely hearts broken

Broken in the night

Roaming the streets to find

Some warmth from someone else’s fire

I’m drawing breath again

From the sights that I see

I’m breaking down again

From the news that I read

And the shops are opening

People busying around

But there are the few of us

Who didn’t sleep at all last night

Give a little help you say

Give a little cash today

To those who are less

Fortunate

But it doesn’t work that way

Doesn’t work that way, you know

I’m drawing breath again

From the sights that I see

I’m breaking down again

From the news that I read

I’m drawing breath again

From the sights that I see

I’m breaking down again

From the news that I read