Levellers - One Way Of Life : Best Of [compilation] (1998) by Levellers (보컬) on maniadb.com

There's only one way of life
And that's your own

My father when I was younger
Took me up on to the hill
That looked down on the city smog
Above the factory spill
He said this is where I come
When I want to be free
Well he never was in his lifetime
But these words stuck with me

I ran from all of this
And I climbed that highest hill
And looked down on my life
Beneath the factory spill
I looked down onto my life
As the family disgrace
Then to all my friends on the starting line
Their wages off to chase
And all my friends and all their jobs
And all the bloody waste

CHORUS

I grew up, learned to love and laugh
Circled A's on the underpass
But the noise we thought would never stop
Died a death as the punks grew up
And we choked on our dreams
We wrestled with our fears
Running through the heartless streets
Chasing our ideas
And the problems of the world
Won't be solved by this guitar
And they won't stop coming either
By the life I've had so far
And the bright lights of my home town
Won't be getting any dimmer
Though their calling has receded now
Like some old distant singer
And they don't seem so appealing
To the eyes of this poor sinner

CHORUS

What a beautiful day (hey hey)
I'm the king of all time
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind

It was on the fifth of November, when time it went back
Some say that that's impossible, but you and I we never looked back
And wasn't it incredible, so beautiful and above all
Just to see the fuse get lit this time
To light a real bonfire, for all time
And what a beautiful day (hey hey)
I'm the king of all time
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind

I was drinking in my night club
It felt good to be back
When Hepburn said I love you
And Flynn said, make mine a double jack
Was then we planned the revolution
To make things better for all time
And when Guevara said that's crazy
And ordered up a bottle of wine

What a beautiful day (hey hey)
What a beautiful day (it's a beuatiful day)
I'm the king of all time
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind

And what a beautiful day (hey hey)
I'm the king of all time (it's a beautiful day)
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind

In there on the big screen, every night I've seen
The way all things could be
For me, for me, for me, for me
The news broke after midnight,
That we pulled the temples down without a sound
But the generals they were hiding out
The ministers, Well! They'd all gone to ground
Wealth re-distribution, became the new solution
So I got a paper bag, but you got the one with all the holes

And what a beautiful day (hey hey)
What a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day)
I'm the king of all time
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind
(What a beautiful day) What a beautiful day
I'm the king of all time (it's a beautiful day)
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind
Oh yea, nothing is impossibe
In my all powerful mind
That's because nothing is impossible
In my own powerful mind

15 years

I never was a violent man
Said the man in the bar with his head in his hands
he's Trying his best to understand the cause of his dismay
But the years of gin have broken him
they've left him cold where he's fitted in
but It's too late now to turn around and find another way

And the laughs in the late night lock-in
have Faded away when he gets in
the girl from fifteen years ago
Has packed and gone away

That's never how it used to be
What happened to all that energy
You took one too many liberties, I'm tired of being afraid
So after the fight she took flight
Hiding swollen eyes and a wounded pride
The best years of her life denied, and sold for liquid shares

CHORUS

and The victims of their world, are advertised on posters
just A beach and a pretty girl, if you just take this potion

theres another week 'til his cheque comes through
He's got a fiver left now to spend on food
But the doors of the bars are open, and he breaks another rule
well He sits on a stool that bears his name
Hes got a favorite glass well its called the same
he's never been kept waiting, 'cos he pays a landlord's wage

CHORUS

There's a young boy in the queue
There's not much else here for him to do
He's had a drink, he's had a few
Down the pub on Hope Street

Dear old lady, you're looking thin
Got a shopping bag with your life in
Your old man's going through the bins
And so it goes on hope street

Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
And show his face on Hope Street

There's a fight right down the street
The betting shop has got him beat
He blew his money for the week
On a horse called Hope Street

No old faces out today
Someone took them all away
Cleaning up or so they say
The dirty face of Hope Street

Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt of this old town
Tell the sun to come around
And show his face on hope street

Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt of this old town
Tell the sun to come around
And show his face on hope street

Everyday I look at you
Dressed up in your ties of blue
Saying there's not much that you can do
To help the kids on Hope Street

You don't seem to even care
That it was you that put them there
You seem to think they like it there
Hanging out on Hope Street

Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
And show his face on hope street

Belaruse no longer feels the sun
But it's under the skin of everyone
Belaruse forgotten by the blind
That is until the next time

Remember all your yesterdays
In the deep blue
Before the world came
And rested there on you

And if the sun and moon
Were both to doubt
Sure enough they'd both go out
When you can't walk in your field
Feel water in your hands
You've been touched by the doubt of man

Remember all your yesterdays
In the deep blue
Before the world came
And rested there on you

Remember all your yesterdays
In the deep blue
Before the world came
And rested there on you

Amid the Sound and Lights
On a table with friends
Everybody's fine
They're all drinking wine, yeah
Was there you fell in love
In a crowded room
Not for the first
But for the thousandth time, yeah

So you Celebrate, you celebrate
you celebrate your Love
With a little house
Just made for two
With all the lovely things
You can buy brand new
You gonna settle down
Just the both of you
You gonna be a good soul
From now on, yea

And when the sap first rose
Back in the day
You thought you'd play it smart
The trail of broken hearts, yeah
You said they won't find you
They won't find you
They won't find you
Just living in a box for two

But now you Celebrate, you celebrate
you celebrate your love
With a little house
Just made for two
With all the lovely things
You can buy brand new
You gonna settle down
Just the both of you

So when you catch an eye
And your dancing heart
Starts telling you the lies
You're doing it to survive
What else could hurt
So much it makes you cry

Yes, you Celebrate, you celebrate
you celebrate your love
With a little house
Just made for two
With all the lovely things
You can buy brand new
You gonna settle down
Just the both of you
You gonna be a good soul
From now on, yeah

Here she comes - the great Leveller
King and serfs bow before her
If you feel her eyes on you - run

She'll come and put her arms around you
You lie and say she hasn't found you
You'll run to her she's there to greet you

Are you lost to us forever
Tied in lust strapped in leather
Is the cost way beyond you
Do you love her more than you love yourself

CHORUS
Is it just too real
Is it just too real
Too cold too clear for you to feel
Is it just too real
Is it just too real
Too cold too clear for you to feel

Am I far in the distance
Am I the cure or a symptom
Should I go when you tell me to

Can you tell I've never loved her
Because my life is for another
Who's up and down
But will take me there

I don't claim to understand her
But hand in hand I am with her
Bright and clear and with a future
You can come and join us if you dare

CHORUS
Is it just too real
Is it just too real
Too cold too clear for you to feel
Is it just too real
Is it just too real
Too cold too clear for you to feel

I look - Then you don't see
I talk - Then you don't hear
I walk then you will crawl low
You've got to let her go

I sing - But you can't speak
I laugh - But you can't smile
l love - But you lie low
Got to let her go .....

I never thought I'd see the day
When you became what you've become
It's easy now just to look away
And leave your conscience on the run
Spend so much time not looking for answers
Someone else's to blame
As long as you don't take the drop
To you it's all the same

Blood, sweat and tears
Really don't matter
Just the things that you do
In this garden

Some time I like to get away
Chase a thought and fly
The people here will never change
They're too scared to look outside
Community spirit neighbourhood watch
Curtains twitching all the time
Got to have a look at what next door's got
Cos your credit's on the line

The other day I saw a fox
He was running for his life
His eyes were wide but his mind was shut
To the redcoat's bugle calls
But when he got home his path was blocked
By some 'sportman's' clever guise
And if this how far your culture's got
Then I deny it

The crackdown starts
The law descends and the nightmare starts again
Though they tighten the security net
There's always one who gets away ...

When you're standing by the roadside
And it's a long way to go
Ah, to carry me
to carry me, carry me, carry me, friend
Oh, to carry me

Together in this mad land
far from truest of hands
well I'll carry you
if you'll carry me, carry me, carry me, friend
Oh, carry me

And we'll petrol Bomb the state
we'll blow away the hate
But we'll do it in our minds
If we can take the time
we'll build ourselves a road
from what we know
each take our part
and now's the time to start
Oh yea take
Oh it must be
Oh it must be
Oh it must be

But Jane's taking Heroin
and Paul is getting pissed
Steve is getting stoned
to fucked to fight
Sarah's on the Acid
and Sean has blown his mind
someone's busy hiding
to fucked to fight

Yea, Some have found religion
and some have run away
and some they formed a party
to find a way
Yea, some joined the system
some just look away
and some just bite their backsides
to find a way

And there is a way ...
Yes, there is a way ...

Yes, there is a way ...

When you're standing by the roadside
and it's a long way to go
Well I'll carry you
if you'll carry me, carry me, carry me, friend
well I'll carry you

He thought he was as drunk as can be
New white skinny rebel was he
Because he knew what mattered
It's all in a clatter of the bands he's seen
His words of wisdom would shock
Whether he meant them or not
He'd save the world
All the boys and the girls
But another single's all he'd be

That's sad
That's right
Another night
Of someone else's fantasy

He thought he was cool with his tunes
He practised the knack in his room
And in the evening he'd DJ
With the slider at eight plus
Believing that at his feet we swoom
Now he's always there in the queue
While down on the dance floor it's you
And when he starts playing
He's up there playing
You don't notice that they're not his tunes

He thought he could measure the world
Because he loved the flag when unfurled
First he's a lawyer, excellent debator
You should have heard the mud he hurled
Now you've seen his face on TV
Leading parliamentary
When he makes decisions
That meet your derision
He reminds us all that we're free

Julie was a lonely girl
She said she was born that way
She always felt that way
She left home at age sixteen
Got a job that's what you're supposed to do
That's what you've got to do
She fell in love and settled down
In a council place there on the edge of town

She'd feel alone in a crowded room
Cry when she heard a happy tune

It would be nice to holiday
Till they took her job away
They just took her life away
And doing nothing isn't fun
When you've nothing from witch to run
Nowhere left to run
She'd visit the social every day
Every time be turned away
Every time be turned away

A hundred stairs to her new room
Over glass and blackened spoons
Children grow old so soon
Past the kids who gather there
Pain masked by narcotic stares
But no one really cares
Her dreams were cut up and bled dry
A million voices in her cry

Julie waits, her world is her window
And Julie hates, just what she doesn't know
And Julie hates, she hates the world below
But Julie loves,
She loves too much to know

Well this is murder
Yea, On the dog train
When all the brakes have failed
And I'm going down hill
And if you see me wave
Yea, I'm only saying bye bye
There's not a single tear
Here in my eyes
La, La, La ..........
And if you've heard this before
Yea, I'm gonna say it again
But life was easier when
I didn't have a clue
Because this is murder
I'm getting dog tired
Let's make the world brand new
How about you
La, La, La ..........
(I love this, I love life)......

Do you fancy a drink,
Just the one,
To clear your head,
We won't be long.
It's a beautiful day,
To waste away,
There's plenty of time,
For another one.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

Make mine a short,
I'm getting there,
But where that is,
I couldn't care.
There must be something I havn't tried,
Perhaps that bottle before my eyes.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

Through the haze,
The sun goes down,
It's getting late,
Let's hit the town.
Call some friends,
To paint it red,
And feed the animal,
In your head.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

They throw you out,
You hit the night,
You go to a club,
You feel alright.
You get a pill,
You take just half,
Then take the rest of it,
For a laugh.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

Across the floor,
You think you see,
The one in your dreams,
Your fantasy.
But that last drink,
Has made you blind,
You need the bar,
But it's hard to find.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

There's a brand new game,
You want to try,
You line them up,
And it's the first to die.
You think you've won,
But it's time to leave,
And back to your's,
For a cup of tea.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

When you find your keys,
And you all fall in,
You spend an hour,
In search of skins.
When all seems lost,
And it's looking grim,
You find the bottle,
Of Christmas gin.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

The rest is blank,
And that's the worst,
An empty head,
For an empty purse.
You had a laugh,
So you think,
But in the morning,
You just stink.

You know you shouldn't do it,
But you see no reason why,
So you blow your mind,
Yeah, yeah,
Uh-ha.

So you fancy a drink,
Just the one,
To clear your head,
We won't be long.