King For A King

You’re six seconds old in the arms of your mother

Six weeks later, you start to see colour

And you learn pretty soon, if you cry you get tit

You learn how to crawl and you learn how to shit

By the time you can speak, they got you in school

Where just asking questions is breaking the rules

Well, ten years later, the system has won

You’ve stopped asking questions and sucking your thumb

On your thirteenth birthday they give you a drink

Say: Get it all down, you’ll forget how to think!

So you tell your first girlfriend you’re gonna die young

At the end of her garden she gives you some tongue

By fourteen she’s left you, well life is unfair

You’ve got shey on your t-shirt and spikes in your head

And your best friend from school said: Just doesn’t suit you!

You sit on a wall and you talk of the future, say

King for a king, eye for an eye

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky

If I slip a little whisky now into your cup

Will you swear that you’ll never grow up?

Swear that you’ll never grow up?

Well your teenage years scar you like daggers

Your insecurity turns into a swagger

Defensive as normandy, lacking maturity

Drink like a fish, smoke like a chimney

King for a king, eye for an eye

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky

We'll stand on the rooftops, we'll scream and we'll shout

If you swear that tomorrow we'll work it all out

If you swear that tomorrow we'll work it all out

Well by twenty you're starting to run out of steam

You got no money and can't sell your dreams

Get a job in an office like a means to an end

You start wearing shirts and losing your friends

And one night you meet a girl having a smoke

She looks alright and she laughs at your jokes

Well, take it all easy, boy, you can't be lazy

Watch out, son, you've got a baby, oh

Six seconds old, in the arms of your lover

Six weeks later, she starts to see colour

And you swear that no harm will come to her or her mother

Your means to an end, well it's starting to suffer, say

King for a king, eye for an eye

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky

Well, at least we can laugh, at least we can smile

We all just drop in for a while

Yeah, we all just drop in for a while

Well, your hair's getting grey now, so is your moustache

Your best friend from school dies in a car crash

You bury him, it's raining, you stand by your wife

You say, what have I done with my life?

Just a name in a family tree, nothing to history

But me and my woman, that's all that it means to me

King for a king, eye for an eye

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky

Slip a little whisky now into my cup

And we'll swear that we'll never grow up

Yeah, we'll swear that we'll never grow up