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He was a simple man with expensive tastes, and a filthy habit that he just could not shake
He’d had everything so easy, but living seemed so hard, We can’t avoid the gutter, on our journey to the stars.
The years went by, he grew cynical and frail, swapped his hatful of hollow, for a skinful of ale
So many songs he didn’t write down before he went to bed for more unwanted dreams and half-smoked cigarettes

He’d lost his sparkle and his jokes weren’t funny
Now there’s too much month left, at the end of the money
He’s on Shank’s pony and Adam’s ale
Sees his wife once a month when she visits him in jail
His parting words before he finally choaked?
“‘Cos you got ‘lit’, don’t mean to say, you got woke.”

They found him in his prison cell, half-dead, high as hell with a bible by his bed.
They always shoot the messengers in cold blood, never go after the criminal above
They hide in the white light of the public glare, where deceit is contagious, and nobody gets spared.
So many songs he didn’t write down before he went to bed, for more unwanted dreams and half-smoked cigarettes

He’d lost his sparkle and his jokes weren’t funny, now there’s too much month left, at the end of the money
He’s on Shank’s pony and Adam’s ale, Sees his wife once a month when she visits him in jail
His parting words before he finally got smoked? “‘Cos you got ‘lit’, don’t mean to say, you got woke.”
He was a simple man with expensive tastes
A filthy habit that he just could not shake
He’d had everything so easy, but living seemed so hard
So join us in the gutter, on our journey to the stars.

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from Welcome to Wilderness Hill. (Album 2024), released January 1, 2024

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