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