War

Things are getting hard now, getting hard to find.
 Your livers piccalilli, your kidneys are unkind.
 Wake up every morning, you'd lie if you felt fin...

1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3
 Well it's grim up north
 But it's grimmer than that in Slough
 I'll sing you a song
 Driving about in your car.
 Making another box ...

I thought I'd be happy in heaven
 I thought it would be swell
 I thought I'd be happy in heaven
 In fact I'm as unhappy as hell

 The harps, they all ...

Well, the tree it does whither
 You're hands like peaches grow old
 Your back bends like a willow
 With nobody left now to hold
 Have all turned to du...

And you with your insufferable power
Breaking hearts by the hour
We die with the flowers
And you, a poisonous shower
That breaks as we cower
We die wi...

It's pissing down with rain
 The dogs they all do howl
 Just beneath the surface, the faces all do scowl
 Selling off an empire, they sell it by the p...

He's got to have a hobby
 He's got to have a vice
 It's just that his hobby
 Well, it isn't very nice.
 He tells you don't tell no-one
 Or else you're...

The Nationalists, the Socialists,
 The Communists, the Capitalists
 They all agree you don't exist
 And they all watch as you slash your wrists
 Gypsy...

Valium glances beneath plastic flowers
Heathens and sinners and men of the hour
In massage parlours on bended knees
You always wanted to please
In Sod...