American Spy
(Ian Hunter)
Neon lights in the pouring rain - it's just another Saturday
Avoid the bovver boys comin' out the Indian - looking for an affray
I left home on the 4th of July - in nineteen hundred and seventy five
I'm just a pirate with a patch over one eye
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I spent fourteen years on the factory floor
I never took a day off sick
I was workin' away all day on the Centre Lathe
Tryin' to get it done quick
I was always in the red - never in the black
You make a little money 'n they take it all back
This ain't the way to spend the rest of my life
Wanna buy a drink for an American,
Wanna buy a drink for an American Spy?
Englishmen don't commit suicide - they move to the USA
They got big back yards and Platinum cards
'N everyday's a holiday
Seedy little snobs - I don't wanna know 'em
I don't trust them fuckers as far as I can throw 'em
Cast your fate to the winds say I
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Don't ask me - sounded like a plan
Go west, go west, go west young man
I've had enough of that old school tie
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something's in the road
obstacles for me
something's in my throat
some things bother me
some things don't
other things might
my life's a sinking boat
don't let me drown, don't let me sink
i'm not gonna rot, i'm not gonna stink like rotting
playing happy games
keeping up a smile
keeping myself happy
just for a while
making ugly music
writing stupid words
why do you want to listen?
don't you get disturbed?
aren't you getting tired?
don't i make you sick?
isn't your stomach turning?
doesn't my face need to be ki