Lightning Seeds Tales Of The Riverbank Lyrics

Tales Of The Riverbank Lyrics

Fourteen hours of working shifts

In early morning Mersey mists

Too
tired to taste the cornflakes on your tongue



As morning hits the
docks

You dream of all the ships there must have been

I river full
of everything that it's not

And if your life's not meant to feel like
this

Maybe it's time for someone to resist



The riverbank
could tell you tales

Of working lives, ship with sails

Jobs were
passed from fathers to their sons

Sometimes it comes down to you

The many to protect the few

Unless you cross the line your jobs are
gone



If it takes a thousand days we'll never stop

Tel it a
thousand ways you'll still be wrong



Not a word in the morning
paper

Feels like we've been out for ages

Maybe unions and players
won't save us

But there's nothing on earth can break us



The
strength to load a thousand ships

But willing hands can turn to fists

On picket lines emotions feelings overflow

A decent job for decent
pay

To fight if thats the only way

The union says well tough your
on your own



If it takes a thousand days we'll never stop

Tell it a thousand ways you'll still be wrong



Not a word in the
morning papers

Feels like we've been out for ages

The unions and
prayers won't save us

There's nothing on earth can break us