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