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Couldn't get ahead |
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I just couldn't get ahead |
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Come out of pub, the shop is closed |
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Come out of pub, harry wants to know |
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When the next bus is |
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I said five or ten minutes |
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I had my change in my hands |
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The bus flashes past. |
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My hands are caught |
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Couldn't get ahead. i just couldn't get ahead. |
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In a week, earned money for month |
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Got all my jobs done |
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My eyelids were sick of it |
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Gist was i could sleep for a day? |
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But bad bills have no respect for a decent man's rest |
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Flopping on the doorstep |
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Outlined in color red |
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Couldn't get ahead. just couldn't get ahead. |
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On an asiatic plane with wings not of the grain |
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Toilet queue was endless |
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Couldn't get a beer |
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The hostesses were muslims |
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When i get in toilet, |
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Light flashes: "return to seat." |
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I feared withdrawal |
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And i feared beer was making sludge of my head. |
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Couldn't get ahead. just couldn't get ahead. |
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Now my problems are solved |
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It's a remedy of old |
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I pretend i'm blind you see |
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Put on some armani clothes |
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And act like et |
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Where i'm at is a cabbage patch, |
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No longer strewn with weeds |
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Have a ghandi at me |
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Colour mags wish me well |
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No more, no get ahead. |
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Couldn't get ahead. just couldn't get ahead. |