Living By Memory - Big Country

I work the graveyard shift at this station

Down on Twelfth

Spend my time selling cigarettes and talking

Mostly to myself

No one waits for me at home

Getting used to life alone

Living by memory

Eat, sleep, breathe

Just mindless routines

Slowly killing me

Living by memory

Living by memory

I remember it like yesterday

It was a Tuesday, October ‘92

There was a wreck out on the highway

You might have heard it on the news

Always think it’s someone lse

In a moment I was by myself

Living by mmory

Eat, sleep, breathe

Just mindless routines

Slowly killing me

There’s a peace that waits for me

At Heaven’s door

But tonight my past

Is all I’m living for

And my memories

Eat, sleep, breathe

Surviving on used-to-be's

Slowly killing me

Living by memories

Eat, sleep, breathe

Surviving on used-to-be's

Slowly killing me

Living by memory

Living by memory