Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Have You Ever Been Away, artist - The Beautiful South.
Date of issue: 31.12.1988
Song language: English
Have You Ever Been Away |
Your `fight them on the beaches’speeches make me despair |
'Cause if there’s one thing we can guarantee is you will not he there |
Tidying your room, making up your bed |
And if your diary’s full that week you’ll send us lot instead |
Send us lot instead, put a poppy by my lovers bed |
We believe you when you say you’ve hurt your back |
Have you ever been away |
Where were you when we took Calais? |
You don 't know, you don’t care |
You 're just glad that you wasn’t there |
Have you ever been away |
I’m afraid your Rule Britannia mania doesn’t ring so true |
If I was captain of the waves I’d turn the gun on you |
Any last requests before you join dead? |
I’ll crap into your Union Jack and wrap it round your head |
Wrap it round your head, take a look at all the blood we’ve shed |
We’ll believe you when you say it was worth it Liberate the streets of Europe, give our kids a chance |
Give them Beaujolais by tap and cheap day trips to France |
But you have never seen or smelt this ungodly death |
It’s like the stench of roasted lamb upon your father’s breath |