HEY PSYCHIATRIST DID YOU EVER SCORE A GOAL?
HEY PSYCHIATRIST DID YOU EVER SCORE A GOAL?
DID YOU EVER EAT PIE AND CHIPS AT NIGHT WHILST WALKING HOME?
COUS COUS AND PINE KERNALS MORE YOUR STYLE
OUR PRIMITIVE WAYS OF EATING, DO YOU FIND WILD?
EVER STICK 50P IN YOUR LECCY METER
ON THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS DID YOU EVER TEETER
YOU LIVED IN THE GHETTO WHILST YOU WERE A STUDENT
GOT YOUR DEGREE, GOT YOUR ARSE OUT YOU WERE PRUDENT
TOOK A YEAR OUT, TREKKED THE HIMALAYAS
WHEN MOST WERE STUCK AT HOME AND SHORT OF LAYERS
WORKING DUSK TILL DAWN TO MAKE ENDS MEET
HOLES IN YOUR SHOES CUTTIN UP YOUR FEET
DID YOU EVER HAVE TO SURVIVE ON BENEFIT ?,
WALKING AROUND, MAKING ENDS MEET, FEELING SHITY,
KNOW IT JUST DOESN’T RING TRUE TO ME
YOUR TABLET DOESN’T EASE THIS POVERTY
DIDNT SLEEP LAST NIGHT MY HOUSE IS DAMP,
THAT’S WHY FOR OUR APPOINTMENT I LOOKED A TRAMP,
YOU SAW THIS AS EVIDENCE OF ME GOING UNDER,
NOT EATEN FOR DAYS, IS IT ANY WONDER?
SEE THE PAIN SOME PEOPLE SUFFER IS IMMENSE,
YOUR ANSWERS TO INNER CITY PROBLEMS DON’T MAKE SENSE,
YEH, IT’S A STUGGLE NOTHINGS EASY, LIFE. IS HARD
LIVING LIFE IN BRITAINS BIG BACK YARD
MANY FIND AWAY OUT WITH THE BOOZE,
JUST ANOTHER WAY TO BEAT THE BLUES,
A SPLIFF, A LINE A PIPE AND ANY HUSSLE,
LIVING FOR THE STONE, HEARING THAT FOIL RUSSLE,
COS TO SOME THIS GIVES A LITTLE BREAK,
FACING LIFE ANOTHER CHANCE THEY’LL TAKE
JUST CANT RID MY SELF OF THIS HEAVY LOAD,
NO CHANCE OF WORK COS IM STUCK WITH THIS POSTCODE,
KEEP TRYIN AND TRYIN TO KEEP MY HEAD ABOVE WATER,
MAKE ENUFF SHEKEL TO FEED AND CLOTHE MY DAUGHTER.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CARRY ON LIKE THIS,
LIFE TO ME HAS ALWAYS TOOK THE PISS,
GETTNG THROUGH SURVIVING DAY BY DAY ,
STRUGGLING TO KEEP THE BAILLIFS AND WOLVES AT BAY.
GOVERNMENT AFTER GOVERNMENT DON’T SEEM TO CARE,
EACH DAY BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT TO BARE,
DECIDED TO PUT MY FAITH BACK IN THE CHURCH,
AND NOW YOU’VE GONE AND LEFT ME IN THE LURCH.
UNEQUAL SHARE IN CHANCE OR OPPORTUNITY,
NO FEELING OR COLLECTIVE SENSE OF COMMUNITY,
PROBLEMS NOT IN MIND, BUT SITUATION,
LIVING IN THIS DIVIDED LITTLE NATION.
BUT IM A FIGHTER, GOT THIS FAR I WONT BEATEN
THE SYSTEM BY YOU I WILL NEVER, EVER BE EATEN
A SURVIVOR, ODDS ALWAYS STACKED AGAINST ME
I WILL RISE ABOVE THIS THAT’S MY DESTINY!
PAUL EVANS 2001