Nothing But The Same Old Story Lyrics

Nothing But The Same Old Story lyrics

I was just about nineteen  

 When I landed on their shore  

 With my eyes big as headlights  

 Like the thousands and thousands who came before  

 I was going to be something . . .  

 Smiled at the man scrutinising my face  

 As I stepped down off the gangway  

  

 Came down to their city  

 Where I worked for many's the year  

 Built a hundred houses  

 Must've pulled half a million pints of beer  

 Living under suspicion  

 Putting up with the hatred and fear in their eyes  

 You can see that you're nothing but a murderer  

 In their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers  

  

 Hey, Johnny, can't wait till Saturday night!  

 Got a thirst that's raging . . .  

 Know a place where we can put that right  

 Wash away the confusion  

 Hose down this fire inside  

 But look out!  

 'Cause I'll tear you into pieces if you cross me.  

  

 I'm sick of watching them break up  

 Every time some bird brain puts us down  

 Making jokes on the radio . . .  

 Guess it helps them all drown out the sound  

 Of the crumbling foundations  

 Any fool can see the writing on the wall  

 But they just don't believe that its happening.  

  

 There's a crowd says I'm alright  

 Say they like my turn of phrase  

 Take me round to their parties  

 Like some dressed up monkey in a cage.  

 And I play my accordion  

 Oh! but when the wine seeps through the facade  

 It's nothing but the same old story  

 Nothing but the same old story 

  

 Got a brother in Boston  

 Says he'll send me on the fare  

 Just wrote me a letter  

 Making out that he's cleaning up out there  

 Two cars in the driveway.  

 Summer house way down on the Cape  

 And I know he'd fix me up in the morning  

  

 I've been thinking about it  

 But it seems so far to go  

 People say in the winter  

 you'd get lost underneath the snow  

 And there's this girl from my home place  

 We've been planning to move back and give it a try  

 So I never got around to going  

 That's why I never got around to going