Mule Runner
Bromley, Kent


Your best clothes come from JD Sports
And all the suburbs are full of budding astronauts
Who'll all grow up to be bank clerks
Yeah they'll all grow up to work in Barclays Bank

Face down in the dirt
You've lost the powers of your Mighty Dino t-shirt
I've had a hard life, I've had a hard life
The stresses and strains of the middle classes brushed under the Shagpile again

Alan Titchmarsh get out of my garden
Anna Ryder Richardson get out of my bedroom
Smell the roses, smell the creosote while you're shoving kebab meat down your throat
Have you put your face in the deep fat fryer or are you just pleased to see me?

Cryer's nose bobs up and down Nightingale Lane and I can't get Billy Idol out of my brain
Cryer's nose bobs up and down Nightingale Lane and I can't get Billy Idol out of my brain
I'm turning Japanese yes I'm turning Japanese do you really think so?
I'm turning Japanese yes I'm turning Japanese do you really think so?

No news is no news
So bite off the hand that never fed you
Insult the traveler who'll never know you
The phrase is love thy neighbour not turn into them, it's love thy neighbour not turn into them

Middle age means M&S slacks and a hundred green carrybags stuffed in a drawer
That waffle cardie suggests to the world that you've lost the will to fight this evil anymore
Face down and in the dirt no special powers in your Mr Byrite tat
The grey clouds are gathering centre stage cue the ultimate toe-curler the marital homepage

The outside world keeps closing in, my kitchen walls are closing in
I'd live like a mole or stick my head in the sand like an ostrich on the run from the sunshine bus
I see a hangman's noose in a Silver Birch, HG Wells leg was the luckiest break
No more marking time in the Kentish legion, bank clerk or bust, bank clerk or bust

Cryer's nose bobs up and down Nightingale Lane and I can't get Billy Idol out of my brain
Cryer's nose bobs up and down Nightingale Lane and I can't get Billy Idol out of my brain
I'm turning Japanese yes I'm turning Japanese do you really think so?
I'm turning Japanese yes I'm turning Japanese do you really think so?

They'll all grow up to be bank clerks, they'll all grow up to be bank clerks
They'll all grow up to be bank clerks, they'll all grow up to be bank clerks


MtM 2002
 
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