The Shabs - Try to Be Better Lyrics

I love the view from your apartment of that abandoned parking lot
Broken glass glows green on black tarmac from bottles smashed by teenage drunks

A shopping trolley traces circles around a wheel that will not turn
Those cardboard beds, newspaper pillows
Limp from last nights unscheduled rain that came too late.

We've got to try to be better to each other or we'll never survive
You're not alone, or at least you're not as lonely as you feel sometimes
It doesn't seem like it matters anymore to anybody at all
We've got to try to be better

So let's assign a set of symbols  to sentiments we can't quite place
We'll leave them scribbled in the margins of library books long overdue
With far fetched faith that they'll be found by somebody struggling to describe
That unexpected lack of purpose we always feel when we achieve the goals we set

We've got to try to be better to each other or we'll never survive
You're not alone, or at least you're not as lonely as you feel sometimes
It doesn't seem like it matters anymore to anybody at all
We've got to try to be better

So run like hell
I'm right behind you from all the secret things we've done
Take shelter in the shrinking shadows as they retreat towards the walls
Of that old abandoned building
Your old apartment with that view I used to love

We've got to try to be better to each other or we'll never survive
You're not alone, or at least you're not as lonely as you feel sometimes
It doesn't seem like it matters anymore to anybody at all
We've got to try to be better