I'm twenty six years old - please tell me what have I got
A monopoly on misery - I guess that's my lot
Ten years of eating bullshit leaves it's taste in your mouth
And I think the time has come for me to spit it all out...

'Cause at the end of the tunnel I see
A dole-queue that's beckoning me.

Yes living hand-to-mouth it can be fun for a while
Simple things please simple minds - do you see me smile?
I've broke my bread and fishes - turned my water to wine
But I'm sick of walking tightrope on the poverty line
I left my home and family - I've pawned all my dreams
Took a second mortgage on my soul to further my schemes
Now my body's in the pages of "exchange and mart"
Ten pounds or nearest offer for one slightly broken heart.

And at the end of the rainbow I found
A crock of shit there on the ground.

Have you had a bellyful of emptiness
Do you feel like me we're all just wasting our time
If it's true inside each cloud's a silver lining
Why does it shine on other lives but not on mine?
I've had a bellyful of emptiness
I've got a pocketful of nothing at all
In real-life fairy tales the frog stays a frog
And the serving girl can't be the belle of the ball.

You're not the belle of the ball
Get back in your cinders and crawl

How many other fools like me
Have lost their lives contractually
Believing there must be far more
Than nine to five - the factory floor?
Have countless thousands watched their dreams
Corrupted into things obscene
By money minded bastards who
Don't give a damn for me or you?

Now my wallet's getting thinner like the hair on my head
By the time I hit the "big Time" I'll be buried and dead
Tell me how can you resent me for the money I've spent
On the only habit I indulge (that's paying the rent)?
No-one said this life was easy Christ I've known that all along
But it needn't be this difficult that's why I wrote this song
The sex and drugs and rock 'n 'roll were never meant to last
And the bailiffs knocking on your door don't need a backstage pass!

Be sure that you read between their lines
There are claws in the contracts we sign.

Have you had a bellyful of emptiness
Do you feel like me we're all just wasting our time
If it's true inside each cloud's a silver lining
Why does it shine on other lives but not on mine?
I've had a bellyful of emptiness
I've got a pocketful of nothing at all
In real-life fairy tales the frog stays a frog
And the serving girl can't be the belle of the ball




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» A Bellyful Of Emptiness
» A Broken Promised Land
» A Clown of Thorns
» A Dog In The Manger
» A Near Life Experience
» A Room Next Door
» A Stranger In The Garden
» A Well Beside the River
» A Word To The Wise
» Alone In Death's Shadow
» Alone in Deaths Shadow
» Another Fine Mess
» ANY OLD IRONY
» Art Nazi
» Bewilderbeast
» Bombjour
» Brimstone Ballet
» Building a Ruin
» Bury Me
» Cancer of the Heart
» Cardboard City
» Catherine at the Wheel
» Civil War Dance
» Come On Eileen
» Constance Eternal
» Crux Of The Message
» Cry Of The Land
» Dead Angels on Ice
» Desperanto
» Desperanto A Song For Europe
» Earth Mother The Sun And The Furious Host
» Eirenarch
» Emerald
» Fainting by Numbers
» Gammadion Seed
» Great Blow For A Day Job
» Halo Of Flies
» Helium
» History Lessens
» History Lessens (The Final Examination)
» History Lessons
» I Dubious
» Inequality Street
» Intro Pagan Man
» Intro Pagan Man 100
» Intro: Pagan Man [1:00]
» Isle of Jura
» It Wasn't Meant To End This Way
» It Wasnt Meant to End This Way
» Jeopardy
» Jumping My Shadow
» Just What Nobody Wanted
» Karmageddon
» Karmageddon The Suffering Silence
» Land Of The Rising Slum
» Little Miss Take
» Master Race
» Men Of Straw
» Moongleam And Meadowsweet
» Moongleam And Meadowsweet 435
» Moongleam And Meadowsweet [4:35]
» My Mother In Darkness
» My Naked I
» No Deposit No Return
» No Strings Attached
» On With Their Heads!
» Our Dying Island
» Our Dying Island 707
» Our Dying Island [7:07]
» Penny Dreadful
» Polkageist
» Postcard From Planet Earth
» Quantity Time
» R'vannith
» Ring Stone Round
» Rvannith
» Salt on the Earth
» Salt On The Earth Another Man's Poison
» Schadenfreude
» Science Never Sleeps
» Single Phial
» Sins Of Emission
» Skyclad
» Skyclad 501
» Skyclad [5:01]
» Snake Charming
» Something to Cling To
» Spinning Jenny
» Still Spinning Shrapnel
» Swords Of A Thousand Men
» Terminus
» Terminus 638
» Terminus [6:38]
» The Antibody Politic
» The Cradle Will Fall
» The Cradle Will Fall 626
» The Cradle Will Fall [6:26]
» The Declaration Of Indifference
» The Disenchanted Forest
» The Great Brain Robbery
» The Ilk Of Human Blindness
» The Once Piece Puzzle
» The One Piece Puzzle
» The Present Imperfect
» The Silver Clouds Dark Lining
» The Sinful Ensemble
» The Sky Beneath My Feet
» The Sky Beneath My Feet 541
» The Sky Beneath My Feet [5:41]
» The Thread of Evermore
» The Truth Famine
» The Wickedest Man In The World
» The Widdershins Jig
» The Widdershins Jig 340
» The Widdershins Jig [3:40]
» The Wrong Song
» THINK BACK AND LIE OF ENGLAND
» Thinking Allowed
» Trance Dance
» Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout)
» Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout) [5:29]
» Trance Dance A Dreamtime Walkabout 529
» Troublesometimes
» Tunnel Visionaries
» Turncoat Rebellion
» Vintage Whine
» When All Else Fails
» When God Logs Off
» Womb Of The Worm
» Worn out Sole to Heel
» You Lost My Memory

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