Man Overboard - Ian Hunter
I shiver and shake, every morning I wake to the roar of the trains overhead I got a newspaper floor, a towel for a door and there's things crawling 'round in my bed The facilities are free at the ship hostelry for the football supporters appear Am I'm losing my mind in the great left behind I got to get myself out of here Man Overboard, waves washing over me Hard times, it's a perilous sea I'll never learn Anyone can tell you where you can find me Drunk and disorderly There's rain on the ground and I can see upside down Streetlamps and the repossessed homes They say crime doesn't pay, well take a walk down my way And I'm stuck here with nowhere to go Out on the street with all the other deadbeats, wasting away with the years Their ships going down on the wrong side of town And I gotta get my ass out of here Man Overboard, waves washing over me Sometimes it's a treacherous sea Walls spinning around the anger that's hidden deep inside of me Drunk and disorderly Reality this, reality that I been there once and I ain't going back They squeezed me 'till I came apart at the seams Now I'd rather dream drunk and disorderly dreams They got lasers that zap, they got cures for the clap you can see your insides on TV They got all kinds of pills for all kinds of ills But they ain't found a cure yet for me Out on the street where the cigarettes meet, abandon hope all who live here There ain't no medicine for the state that I'm in And I gotta get myself outta here Man Overboard, waves washing over me Sometimes it's a perilous sea I'll never learn the 12 steps to heaven, they never work for me Drunk and disorderly Man Overboard, straight in the deep end baby Sometimes it's a treacherous sea If I'm going down it can't hurt any more than what you did to me Drunk and disorderly
Artist: Ian Hunter
Title: Man Overboard