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isn’t it about time you got yourself a real job
isn’t it about time you started to grow up
isn’t it about time you turned the music down
isn’t it about time time you stopped messing around
you’ll be waiting forever for the right time
you’ll be praying praying for another of your nine lives
used up your luck and every last one of your lifelines
isn’t it about time
isn’t it about time you saved your soul for the weekend
isn’t it about time you tied up your loose ends
isn’t it about time you gave up the pretence
isn’t it about time you showed some common sense
you’ll be waiting forever for the right time
you’ll be praying praying for another of your nine lives
used up your luck and every last one of your lifelines
isn’t it about time
I hate every song they’re playing on the radio
and I know it’s not what you know it’s who you know
hey kids you can be anything you want to be
hey kids as long as you’re there by 23
as long as you’re there by 23
isn’t it about time you came over to the dark side
isn’t about time you watched the TV every night
about time you stopped renting and started buying
isn’t it about time you signed on the dotted line
isn’t it about time you got yourself a real job
isn’t it about time you joined the rest of us
isn’t it about time you turned the music down
isn’t it about time you started to grow up
you’ll be waiting (isn’t it about time)
you’ll be praying (to get yourself a real job)
you’ll be waiting forever for the right time
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as good as it gets
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jimmy lived next door he was a 35 a day kind of guy
finally kicked the habit finally gave in to the doctors and his wife
six months down the line back in the waiting room
staring into space til the doctor called him through
he said I thought that I’d feel better I don’t feel the benefit
if I’d have known I’d be back here then I’d have never quit
is this as good as it gets then give me back my cigarettes,
is this as good as it gets
I’m only serving my time a steady decline
I’m calling off all the bets
make mine spiralling with little highs
make mine spiralling with little highs
sat at the kitchen table he stirs two sugars in his tea
underneath the light bulb watching shapes rise in the steam
glances out the window sees a buzzard on the breeze
circling the cold air trying to catch the heat
he said I think about the numbers and how nothing’s ever fair
a thousand things could kill me so why should I be scared
is this as good as it gets then give me back my cigarettes
is this as good as it gets
I’m only serving my time a steady decline
I’m calling off all the bets
make mine spiralling with little highs
make mine spiralling with little highs
I saw him in the garden he sat smoking on the step
asked him how you keeping he said well nothing’s got me yet
don’t tell her that you saw me cos she still thinks I’ve quit
I keep marlboros in a flower pot I hide them in the shed
he said I think about the numbers and how nothing’s ever fair
a thousand things could kill me so why should I be scared
is this as good as it gets then give me back my cigarettes
is this as good as it gets
I’m only serving my time a steady decline
I’m calling off all the bets
make mine spiralling with little highs
make mine spiralling with little highs
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Serious Child England, UK
Roots songwriter from the West Sussex woods
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Spiral Earth
⭑⭑⭑⭑ RnR
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