There Is A Draught

by Jonathan Clode and Alex Clarke

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There is a draft that blows through my door</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>From cries in the night begging alms for the poor</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The voices are cracked, but the message is clear</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I hear it too often, then cover my ears </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Human pin pricks lining the street</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Take up their position and stare at my feet</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I don't have the answer, I'm just walking by </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Not my place or my job to understand why</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So tolerant of tragedy, equipped to fail</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Reduced to a blight on the January sales</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>These wretched exiles are not my concern</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The hand that feeds you is bitten and burned</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>My issues are clean streets and driveable roads</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Not badge wearing victims who can't stand the cold</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I shan't be to blame for this sanctioned decline </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Stop taking drugs and I'm sure you'll be fine</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>How hard can it be to get a room with a bed</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's not like success put a gun to my head</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And forced me to thrust myself into the race</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But, did I ever know hell as my resting place?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's really not somewhere that I've had to go</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->  <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So how on earth could I possibly know...</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->