Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Man Of Great Promise, artist - The Style Council. Album song Classic Album Selection, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.2012
Record label: Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Song language: English
A Man Of Great Promise |
I bought the paper yesterday and I saw the obituary |
And I read of how you died in pain — |
Well I just couldn’t understand it |
Oh if I could of changed that, then Lord knows I’d do it now |
Oh but there is no going back — |
And what’s done is done forever |
But you were always chained and, shackled by the dirt — |
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt |
And I think of what you might have been |
A man of such great promise |
Oh but you seem to forget the dream — |
And the more you saw you hated |
Oh but let’s not talk of blame, for what is only natural |
Like a moth going to a flame — |
You had a dangerous passion |
But you were always chained and, shackled by the dirt — |
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt |
All the things that you might have been — but who am I to say? |
Still I wonder — |
If it’s the cold earth you prefer to lay — |
If it’s the cold earth — you prefer to stay |