Take The Money and Run, recorded live at The Vale.

Well I wait here in this queue
With the rest of the other men
Just like everybody else in here
I'm never going to work again
Just like everybody else in here
I still got to pay my bills
I step right up to the dotted line
And I sign my name like everybody else

Take the money and run
Take the money and run

From the high street chain gang stores
To the cold, call centre hells
The underclass are dancing
As they ring the leper bells
When the crew shouts "mutiny!"
And the captain's lost her grip
Icebergs off New Zealand's coast
Everybody knows it's time to abandon ship

Take the money and run
Take the money and run

Run fast, run far
Don't tell anybody where you are
Don't trust anyone
Run quick, run slow
Don't tell anybody where you go
Don't trust anyone
Take the money and run

Daddy was a working man
They broke him on the wheel
Might have made him buckle
But they could not make him kneel
Never had a family 
But if I ever have a son
I'm going to tell him to take the money and run

My mother was a working girl
She kept her children fed
Never gave her heart away
To the strangers in her bed
I never had a family
But if I ever have a daughter of my own
I'm going to tell her to take the money and run

Well you can bank your wages boys
With the rest of the other fools
And you'll lose  everything except your shirt
When the motherfuckers change the rules
Now the real shit's hitting the fan
And there's nothing can be done
Listen to the words of the profit Yusef
This is what he said "I'm gonna get me a gun"
Take the money and run

Run fast, run far
Don't tell anybody where you are
Don't trust anyone
Run quick, run slow
Don't tell anybody where you go
Don't trust anyone
Take the money and run

Take The Money And Run (Live)

Isaac deduced gravity watching apple drop from tree
Duller heads said "whats the fuss? Dude it's like obvious?!"
No one cuts the mental mustard now
The way we did back then
All we do is scrape the meat from off the bones of better men

Galileo cried "The planets move!", a very brave decision
Could have been a one way ticket to the dungeons of the inquisition
Where's the voice of Salman Rushdie now?
Afraid to raise his pen
All we ever do is scrape the meat from off the bones of better men

Ooh, the shiny promise of the 1950's
Our mothers lied to us
A dream that died in the 1960's
Now everybody is on that bus
And it's going nowhere
It's going nowhere

I never saw a flying saucer, let alone a flying car
But I did see robots, that's exactly what we are
I used to hold my breath while Houston counted slowly down from ten
We could have had the moon and the stars back then

We're never going to get off planet
That's a fairytale my friend
All we ever do is scrape the meat from off the bones of better men

Jan 2011

Better Men

She doesn't sleep at night
She keeps the bedroom light on
She doesn't want to face tomorrow
Unsteady on her feet
The kind of girl you only ever meet
In a town call sorrow

She knows you can't buy happines
And that's a painful lesson
She's having trouble learning
First a session every week 
Then a party every night
Then a bottle every morning

Not smart financially
Why only last week she spent
The rent she had to beg to borrow
She wants so much to feel
Somebody's always ready to make a deal
In a town called sorrow

Her family don't understand
Her friends don't care at all
The neighbours notice everything
While her kids go hungry
Empties gather in the hall
And she'll be in the kitchen sinking 

La la la la la 

I hate to see her trip and stumble
It hurts to see her fall
Well after all I'm only human
Got to say she's quite a girl
Perhaps it's cruel, but hey
She's overdue to be a woman

She went to sleep one night
When everything was all right
She woke up in a town called sorrow
Someone had been and gone
Truth is that you can't trust anyone
You can't trust anyone
You can't trust anyone in a town called sorrow


Town Called Sorrow

I hear you've turned your back on all things black and blue
Well that's ok I've found somebody new
I tell her I love her, if she only knew
That when I close my eyes she looks like you

I guess I'm doing all right
A new career in a new town
But do I have to tell you who's been coming round?
He tells me he loves me, if he only knew
When I close my eyes he looks you

They say the midnight sky caught fire
They say the bells were ringing, ringing in the world below
The old year died outside my window
We didn't even notice, we didn't even know
We didn't even know

You're someone else's woman
You're someone else's man
Do we have to hurt each other just because we can?
I don't sleep
I can't sleep
Every time I do
When I close my eyes (s)he looks like you

When I close my eyes he looks like you
When I close my eyes she looks like you

When I Close My Eyes

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