Levellers One Way Lyrics

One Way Lyrics

There's only one way of life 
And that's your own 

My father when I
was younger
Took me up on to the hill 
That looked down on the city smog

Above the factory spill
He said this is where I come 
When I want to
be free
Well he never was in his lifetime 
But these words stuck with
me

I ran from all of this 
And I climbed that highest hill 
And
looked down on my life
Beneath the factory spill 
I looked down onto my
life
As the family disgrace 
Then to all my friends on the starting line

Their wages off to chase
And all my friends and all their jobs
And
all the bloody waste

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I grew up, learned to love and laugh

Circled A's on the underpass 
But the noise we thought would never
stop
Died a death as the punks grew up
And we choked on our dreams 
We
wrestled with our fears 
Running through the heartless streets
Chasing our
ideas 

And the problems of the world 
Won't be solved by this
guitar
And they won't stop coming either
By the life I've had so
far
And the bright lights of my home town
Won't be getting any
dimmer
Though their calling has receded now 
Like some old distant singer

And they don't seem so appealing 
To the eyes of this poor sinner


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