Make the best of it if you can't afford the rest of it,
and lower your expectations.

A bird in the hand will probably **** on your palm,
especially if it's a pigeon,
stick with the two in a bush.

Here we are
another Bank Holiday
playing Billie Holiday
on the phonograph
and
eating cornflakes before
I take a bath.

Coffee time.

Notting Hill
I might go chill there,
float like a butterfly
underneath a blue sky
alternatively
I might power up and
go to Battersea

oh yeah
it's all to play for when the day
stretches out in front of you
and there's a million and one things
that you could do.

those were two of them.

Times are hard
times are lean
opportunities
few and far between,
but
they always have been
so
what's new.

It always takes the time it takes,
and there's no escaping from that.

No one can show that the faster they go
they can go faster than the time that it takes.

The speed camera doesn't even move.

If we're hurtling into the future
and the past recedes into our wake
how long will that take?

Still here
alive
in the year
Twenty Twenty Five,

thinking of Zager and Evans
and the year
twenty five twenty five
don't think
I'll be alive then.

Films to keep you watching
pills to keep you in
alcohol to keep you doped up
where the hell do we begin?

Coshes are available

but self medication is the brute
that digs down to the root
and puts the cyanide deep inside
ain't that the frickin' truth.

Climbing out
what's that about?
when it's comforting to know
that down inside we're safe and warm
why the *** would we want to go?

easy come and get one set them free
no one understands what it is to be
someone just like you or me,

oh
sing that song
sad *******, but it won't be long
you
just got to wait a mile or two.

takes the statement
last testament
no win no fee
set me free
no one understands

and that
includes me.

They're still making it up
telling you
that your cup's half full.

Don't believe the
'we have a plan men'
it's probably a scam, man.

This day moves on a clockwork spider
the gap between us getting wider.

We're still relating to the state
where the union is killing men
and the
'we have a plan men'
are laughing all the way to the bank.