Song written mainly by Tom Clelland, a friend of mine from Margate in Kent. I added some lyrics and a bit of a change in the music. It's about the stresses of life under Thatcherism when no one had a job and we all left the UK to work abroard. At least, I did,
lyrics
First you’re a baby, then your a child,
They send you to school with your head runnin’ wild.
Give you some lessons to slow you right down,
It takes you 20 more years just to come back around,
Then you leave school at a suitable age,
You get yourself a job with a suitable wage.
The management say “Hey!, You’re just what we need,
You’d better wanna follow as we wanna lead”,
You go to a bar, You’re feeling quite dry,
You really need something to get yourself high.
Money on the table, to get nicely pissed,
There’s nothing quite like it to forget about this,
Stephen Whitby aka Indus Rush, spent years travelling and now tells of stories, relationships and experiences he went
through, and puts them into the catchy songs he creates in his Dalbeattie studio in south west Scotland. Steve is a Londoner by birth, and after many years in Thailand, and 3 years in Pakistan Steve's heavily influenced by the East, and this is plainly audible in the music....more
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