Stuck chasing payslips
Always on the dayshift
Tired from cooking up Brunswick stew
But there's people who chase this
Half the day is aimless
Tired of thinking up what to do
Then there's folk who got some
Still not enough but they got some
Kind of figure that'd do for you
You'd waste a life for an empire
Loving wife lost in the crossfire
And all they want is an honest I do
They think you're so cool ye
How you bend all the rules ye
And they hate all your songs ye
But they still sing along ye
Some found a wife and kept her
With kids in uni lectures
A cat, a dog and a tv bigger than vue
Never put a foot wrong
What's the line in the bowie song
About doing nothing good, bad or out of the blue
But the narrow n straight one
Good old stirred not shaken
Begs the thought of what there'd be to do
If you weren't strapped to the wagon
Some are chasing the dragon
That they'll never catch how they long to be you
Ye they think you're so cool ye
How you stick to the rules
And they hate all your songs
But they still sing along ye
It comes with ease ye
So hard to please ye
So used to your means ye
You're living someone else's dream