Couldn't get ahead

I just couldn't get ahead



Come out of pubthe shop is closed

Come out of pubharry wants to know

When the next bus is

I said five or ten minutes

I had my change in my hands

The bus flashes past.

My hands are caught





Couldn't get ahead. I just couldn't get ahead.





In a weekearned money for month

Got all my jobs done

My eyelids were sick of it

Gist was I could sleep for a day? 

But bad bills have no respect for a decent man's rest

Flopping on the doorstep

Outlined in color red





Couldn't get ahead. just couldn't get ahead.





On an asiatic plane with wings not of the grain

Toilet queue was endless

Couldn't get a beer

The hostesses were muslims

When I get in toilet

Light flashes: "return to seat."

I feared withdrawal

And I feared beer was making sludge of my head.





Couldn't get ahead. just couldn't get ahead.





Now my problems are solved

It's a remedy of old

I pretend I'm blind you see

Put on some armani clothes

And act like et

Where I'm at is a cabbage patch

No longer strewn with weeds

Have a ghandi at me

Colour mags wish me well

No moreno get ahead.





Couldn't get ahead. just couldn't get ahead.