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Litter Bin Lyrics by Victoria Wood

Real Life: The Songs

1997

[Verse 1]
In a multistory car park
In the middle of the night
There's a youngish girl just standing
In the artificial light
With a blank pale face and stringy hair
By the litter bin
Just standing there

[Verse 2]
She holds a little baby
It isn't very old
Just a little grubby bundle
Wrapped up against the cold
And she looks around
And puts it in
Puts the baby in the litter bin

[Chorus 1]
Because it's a sad world
What can I tell you?
Half of the things that happen
Don't make sense at all
It must be a sad world
I know, I know, I know, I know
That puts a baby in a litter bin

[Verse 3]
In a nice suburban high street
In the middle of the day
A small man with a rifle
Blasts a bank clerk's life away
And while women scream
The bank clerk's eyes
Hold a look of mild surprise

[Verse 4]
They ask him why he did it
He only says "because"
And the mother of the bank clerk
Keeps his bedroom as it was
On his unmade bed she weeps for him
And the baby in the litter bin

[Chorus 2]
Because it's a sad world
It shouldn't surprise you
If something sounds cruel and pointless
Chances are it's true
But I wonder if I knew
Somewhere inside, inside, inside
That they put babies into litter bins

[Verse 5]
In a Bentley full of music
In the early afternoon
Some chap still drunk from lunchtime
Jumps the lights a bit too soon
And while Callas sings, she's so superb
A crumpled figure hits the kerb

[Verse 6]
While her face is covered over
He blames its on his clutch
There's a gutter full of shopping
That no-one wants to touch
Some broken eggs, a dented tin
And a baby in a litter bin

[Chorus 3]
Because it's a sad world
And people do dumb things
And people have dumb things done to them
And that is worse
And whether you just curse
Or cry, or cry, or cry, or cry
There's still the baby in the litter bin

[Chorus 4 to Outro]
Because it's a sad world
We have to have kind hearts
We have to light tiny bonfires
That can pierce the dark
Then maybe one small spark
Who knows, who knows, who knows, who knows
Could possibly begin
To warm the frozen skin
Of the baby in the litter bin
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Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood

About “Litter Bin” by Victoria Wood

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"Litter Bin" is credited to Victoria Wood. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Litter Bin" appears on "Real Life: The Songs" in 1997.

Visit the Victoria Wood artist page at /artist/victoria-wood for biography, popular tracks, and links to more lyric pages.

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