Ever since I was eight or nine   I´ve been standing on the shoreline   For all my life I´ve been waiting   for something lasting   You loose your hunger and you loose your way   You get confused and then you fade away      Oh this town   kills you when you are young   Oh this town   kills you when you are young      I´m not the boy that I used to be   this town has got the youth of me   All the eyes turn hollow   from the work of sorrow      You die young   you die when you´re young   you die when you´re young   We are shadows   oh were shadows   Just shadows in the alley      You´re standing on the paving   by the office building   They´ve got so much to do   never time for you      You die young   you die when you´re young   you die when you´re young   We are shadows   oh we´re shadows   Just shadows in the alley   I´ve got nothing   nothing to wait for   nothing to wait for      Where is life   in this town   Where is life in this town