Chain of Keys

15 keys 15 keys hang on a chain The chain is joint The chain is joint and forms a ring The ring is in The ring is in a woman's hand Who's walking on Walking on the dusty ground The dusty ground's a dead-end track The neighbours won't be coming back 15 gardens overgrown 15 houses falling down The woman's old The woman's old and dressed in black She keeps her hands Keeps her hands behind her back The numbers painted on her doors Poster's on the locked up church I think of how life would have been We asked but she won't let us in A key so simple and so small How can it mean no hope at all? A key's a promise or a wish How can it mean such hopelessness "A circle is broken", she says "A circle is broken", she says