We could throw ourselves in a road But receive no comfort from street lights Why not come in for a jamens and escape life? We're idle in the mean time
To think that the last of the small town playboys was a little bit like me Hold on, well, what could that mean? Well, I'm still looking around for leads
She could never ever ever ever ever ever ever get it into her thick head So when pretending ends she'll have scattered her friends And she'll find she
You sauntered up and you said, ?How?s tricks?? You can?t mix drugs with politics But we took and talked and lost the plot And after that everything seemed
This is where the truth begins Where teardrops glance the sallow skin You lose your will And I can lend you mine The Westway wall?s so tall and bleak
on and on we go Traipsing over bridges, over corpses down below And all the while we could have smiled for one thing on our minds The very thing you strive for is the thing
I knew all along That I was right at the start bout the seeds of the weeds That grew in your heart Self satisfaction for the factions Who formed
Four more rotations and no one will hurt These are the things I dream of I've been thinking through the drinking Though my confidence is shrinking That
This is where the truth begins Where teardrops glance the sallow skin You lose your will And I can lend you mine The westway wall?s So tall and bleak
thee well Smoked my fifth life into black clouds, not a stitch left to be proud of Bye bye to these five lives, fare thee well Six little lives, six dirty
be bothered All this waiting is just hesitating for nothing And the fault lines And all the conjecture from both sides Why oh why can't we change things
Well, It took you seven years to learn my name And I know it's all the drugs and booze that I took, lame Oh, sh-sh-shame (what a shame) But it took me
on There's blood on my shoes Nobody knows Because of you Where did you go? Where did you go? Nobody knows Where did you go? You're pretty, so pretty
Hails to the chancers As boredom kills like cancer We need dreams For the romancers And I'm looking to you Well, the life's so lonely I need my one and
How can they be tired of England? They'll never know the England that we know Never know where the ones with the dreams go, no Never notice the skies
You sauntered off and you said how?s tricks You can?t mix drugs with your politics So we took and talked and lost the plot And after that everything
After a month our friendship wained cos your ambitions to a fault why did i let you in my brain? just look in these western eyes [chorus] I've been lost
We could throw ourselves in the road but recieve no comfort from street lights Why not come in for a James and escape life We're idle in the meantime