Beautiful South The Have You Ever Been Away Lyrics

Have You Ever Been Away Lyrics

(heaton/rotheray)

 Your `fight them on the beaches' speeches make me despair

 'cause if there's one thing we can guarantee is you will not he there

 Tidying your room, making up your bed

 And if your diary's full that week you'll send us lot instead

 

 Send us lot instead, put a poppy by my lovers bed

 We believe you when you say you've hurt your back

 

 Have you ever been away

 Where were you when we took calais?

 You don 't know, you don't care

 You 're just glad that you wasn't there

 Have you ever been away

 

 I'm afraid your rule britannia mania doesn't ring so true

 If i was captain of the waves i'd turn the gun on you

 Any last requests before you join dead?

 I'll crap into your union jack and wrap it round your head

 

 Wrap it round your head, take a look at all the blood we've shed

 We'll believe you when you say it was worth it

 

 Liberate the streets of europe, give our kids a chance

 Give them beaujolais by tap and cheap day trips to france

 But you have never seen or smelt this ungodly death

 It's like the stench of roasted lamb upon your father's breath