
Date of issue: 20.03.2005
Record label: The Echo Label
Song language: English
Great Escape |
You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion |
You once thought that on reflection, you’d really got it made |
You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses |
You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay |
You want to learn to live like earnerest the crat (an aristocrat) |
You bought your girlfriends earrings well that soon put paid to that |
And if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears |
You could dream of stuck old wallpaper and crystal chandeliers |
You cashed in your cards now you want to buy some glamour |
You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope |
A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics |
They got you in histerics, and walked off with your soul |
And with that cheap, skate, royalty, you get your flag and wave |
Well I saw you on TV grinning at the motorcade |
Pretty soon we’ll hang the traitors, string them up like drapes |
So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape |
You hung around to long, your mother read your letters |
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone |
The time the morning slips, blends into your wallpaper |
And once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong |
And your fathers at the factory that makes money seeling guns |
To fight the wars that spends the lives of all the peoples sons |
Pretty soon we’ll hang the traitors, and we’ll string them up like drapes |
So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape |
You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion |
You once thought that on reflection, you’d really got it made |
You once thought that on reflection, you’d really got it made |
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