(tennant/lowe)
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(everybody e-e-everybody
everybody e-e-everybody
everybody e-e-everybody
everybody jump to attention...)
Each morning after sunblest
feel the benefit, mental arithmetic
i waited by the staffroom
in time for benediction
     living a law just short of delusion
     when we fall in love there's confusion
     this must be the place i waited years to leave
To our voices nobody's listening
we shiver in the rain by the touchline
then a coach ride to the station
"my lord, the carriage awaiteth!"
     living a law just short of delusion
     when we fall in love there's confusion
     this must be the place i waited years to leave
     this must be the place i waited years to leave
     and how
     how long?
I'm listening to the words i thought i'd never hear again
a litany of saints and other ordinary men
kneeling on the parquet
whatever has gone wrong?
the fear and feeling hopelessness
i don't want to belong
I dreamt i was back in uniform
and a candidate for examination
history, someone had blundered
and a voice rapped "knuckle under!"
     living a law just short of delusion
     when we fall in love there's confusion
     this must be the place i waited years to leave
     this must be the place i waited years to leave
     and how
     and how
     how long?
(trebuet nash narod odnogo)
     [our people demand only...]