Close to the railway in a house of cardboard and plastic
A young boy is alive with his little sister and best friend
Poor and sad in a world that seems beyond repair
Scavengers they search for trash under the tyranny of the sun
Adult and cruel men come every day at nine p.m.
To buy what the little slaves have hoarded throughout the day
Nowhere near minimum wage are they paid poor kids
They go to sleep every day still starving and with hollow eyes
The days are quiet here not unlike the night
Except when the train is passing by on the railway
It does so now and then every single night and day
They are often awoken by the sound of steam and moving steel

Plastic metal glass and cardboard
Plastic metal glass and cardboard
They collect plastic metal glass and cardboard
So much plastic metal glass and cardboard

And so they search every day from morning until eve
For plastic metal glass and cardboard
Sometimes if they are lucky they might find something like an old pc
It pays more so with a bit of luck the bread will be without mold tonight
This is one hell of a lullaby
They sort it in stacks all of the trash
The plastic metal glass and cardboard
And when the stacks are as tall as themselves they can get paid
For their plastic metal glass and cardboard

Is this all you have
Are you hiding anything
You know you have to hand over everything
Is this really all you’ve found
You useless little stumps
Take your money and get back to work you scum

Plastic metal glass and cardboard
Plastic metal glass and cardboard
They collect plastic metal glass and cardboard
So much plastic metal glass and cardboard

Plastic metal glass and cardboard, plastic metal glass and cardboard
Plastic metal glass and cardboard, plastic metal glass and cardboard
They collect plastic metal glass and cardboard
So much plastic metal glass and cardboard

One day they search a container filled with trash
For plastic metal glass and cardboard
They’re not alone, they meet a rat
An aggressive little pest who bites the best friends hand
This is one hell of a lullaby
They get the rat off and kill the critter fast
But the blood is flowing from the open wound
They hurry home and treat it as well as they can
And the best friend goes to bed with a nauseous feeling

Is this all you have
Are you hiding anything
You know you have to hand over everything
Is this really all you’ve found
You useless little stumps
Take your money and get back to work you scum

Plastic metal glass and cardboard
Plastic metal glass and cardboard
They collect plastic metal glass and cardboard
So much plastic metal glass and cardboard

Plastic metal glass and cardboard, plastic metal glass and cardboard
Plastic metal glass and cardboard, plastic metal glass and cardboard
They collect plastic metal glass and cardboard
So much plastic metal glass and cardboard

Morning comes and he does not wake up
He must be tired from the struggle yesterday
He is warm and cold sobbing quietly
They decide to let him stay in bed for the day
When they get back home under the afternoon sun
With todays plastic metal glass and cardboard
He’s still lying there even colder than before
Sleeping away his sadness and pain
When the men come in the night at nine p.m.
For the plastic metal glass and cardboard
They also take the poor child along with them
And they never saw their best friend again

Twenty-four hours later the kids haven’t left their shelter
To collect plastic metal glass and cardboard
And when the cruel men arrive to collect
Their cups are finally spilling over
They yell and thrash they destroy the little home
All while the poor siblings sit quietly and watch
Run away we don’t need your ungratefulness here
Be gone stay gone or you will pay with pain
And so the two remaining kids took their emptiness and walked
Until they reached the cliff just west of the town
They watched the sun setting behind the horizon
Will they after all this see a happy ending?

No

The brother took his little sisters hand in his own
The sun was gone into the ocean
With nothing left to loose and nothing to be gained
He threw his little sister into the waves
They engulfed her little body and crushed her to death
I saved her from this miserable life, he said
Then he jumped without any sign of fear and regret
With all the things he had seen he was already dead