The Great Escape Lyrics
You were born with football boots and a sun tanned complexion
You once thought that, on reflection, I've really got it made
You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses
You suffered small abuses and settled for the pay
You want to learn to live like an aristocrat
But your girlfriends earrings well they soon put paid to that
If the whole world came crashing down around your ears
You dream of stucco wallpaper and crystal chandeliers
You cashed in your cards you want to buy some glamour
You really are enamoured with that new soap on a rope
A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics
They got you in hysterics and walked off with your soul
And with that cheapskate royalty you get your flag and wave
And I've seen you on TV grinning at the motorcade
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
You hung around too long, your mother read your letters
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone
The time the morning slips, blends into the wallpaper
And once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong
And your father's at the factory that makes money selling guns
That fought the wars that spent the lives of all the people's sons
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, we'll string them up like drapes
And I'll ride around like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
You were born with football boots and a sun tanned complexion
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
You once thought that on reflection, oh yeah, I've really got it made
|
I Am Kloot Songs (88) List All
3 Feet Tall
86 TV's
A Strange Arrangement Of Colour
An Ordinary Girl
Astray
At The Sea
Avenue Of Hope
Because
Big Tears
Bigger Wheels
Black And Blue
Can't Be Saved
Chaperoned
Cinders
Coincidence
Cuckoo
Darkstar
Dead Mens Cigarettes
Dead!
Deep Blue Sea
Down At The Front
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X
Falling Away With You
Ferris Wheels
From Your Favourite Sky
Gods And Monsters
H.
Heaven Help Us
Here For The World
Hey Little Bird
Hong Kong Lullaby
I Believe
I Hate Myself And Want to Die
Icky Thump
If I Ain't Got You
If I Fall
Imagine
In My Daughter's Eyes
In The Name Of God
Junk Culture
Life In A Day
Little Wonder
Loch
Lucky
Mermaids
Missing
Monkeys
Morning Rain
No Direction Home
No Fear of Falling
Not A Reasonable Man
Ohio Is For Lovers
One Man Brawl
Only Role In Town
Over My Shoulder
Pain
Progenies of The Great Apocalypse
Proof
Reinventing Your Exit
Runaways
Running Up That Hill
Sad But True
Sand And Glue
Sanitarium
Silence Is A Scary Sound
Sober
Sold As Seen
Soldiers Of The Wasteland
Someone Like You
Stop
Stop Taking Photographs
Storm Warning
Strange Without You
Suddenly Strange
Sunlight Hits the Snow
The Great Escape
The Last Night
The Same Deep Water As Me
The Stars Look Familiar
The Taste Of Defeat
This House Is Haunted
Titanic
To You
Twist
Untitled #1
Vermillion, Pt. 2
What Sarah Said
Wires
Stream The Great Escape
I Am Kloot Albums (4)
|
