Beautiful South The The Slide Lyrics

The Slide Lyrics

(heaton/rotheray)

 When you're too old for the swings

 You tend to choose the slide

 And they never seem to warn you

 The slide's your final ride

 And when you're at the top of it

 And you cannot see the end

 Either don't let go son - or grab the nearest friend

 The slide is no respecter of dignity or class

 As soon as you sit down on it

 That slide has got your ass

 

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 Heroes and villains have tried and cried

 A broken soul at the bottom lies denied

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 

 When the slide was invented

 A thousand drinkers sighed

 They thought they had the copyright

 On the very word the slide

 It's a picture of innocence

 On which the innocent have fried

 Take the helter skelter son

 It's easier than the slide

 Advice to listening parents

 Or the father of the bride

 Let them marry anyone

 But don't let her take the slide

 

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 Heroes and villains have tried and cried

 A broken soul at the bottom lies denied

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 

 It'll take you much much lower

 Than you ever would have asked

 'cause as soon as you sit down on it

 The slide has got your ass - it's customers are fools

 And every one of them deceased

 The long and silver murderer

 The devil must have greased

 

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 Heroes and villains have tried and cried

 A pile of broken souls at the bottom it denied

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide

 Heroes and villains have tried and cried

 A broken soul at the bottom it denied

 Don't take the slide, don't take the slide