The Litter and the Leaves Lyrics

Another link in the chain getting rusty breaking

Down in the gutter with a smile

It’s another case of finding your place

Another number showing what he’s made

The sun sweeps the shadows from the concrete

Morning comes and it’s another day

But the streets have voices, the walls have ears

And they’re never gonna go away

On our feet is where we’re gonna land

(You can find me in the gutter!)

The gutter is the place where we will make our stand

With a smile on my face and a bottle in my hand

You’ll find me in the gutter in the morning

Here with the litter and the leaves we tremble

Here’s where our memories were made

Oh the real life starts in the gutters and the bars

Long after the light of day has faded

’Cause we just don’t know how to take it we fell

Cheated and excited and afraid

As they all shake hands and draw their lines in the sand

And forget about the mess they’ve made

On our feet is where we’re gonna land

(You can find me in the gutter!)

Placing the blame on the chain of command

With a smile on my face and a bottle in my hand

You’ll find me in the gutter in the morning

With a smile on my face and a bottle in my hand

You’ll find me in the gutter in the morning

They have been sighted, they have been indicted

And we’ve been ignited to break until they bend

We will deny them, this will be our anthem

We will defy them, till the bitter end

Words, witnesses heard

We know it’s not that simple

Your lies open our eyes

Force us to rise irate

The world isn’t this small

We know it’s not that simple

And the gutters give birth, and we’re filling the streets

And the city will shake with the sound of our feet

...And we’ll sing our gutter anthem till the day we die!

Life goes on, the city fades away

You can’t see the fireworks by the light of day

We’re not on the payroll, we’re just getting buy

But we’ll sing our gutter anthems till we die, die, die

We’ll sing our gutter anthems till we die