The Slide Lyrics - Beautiful South

(Heaton/Rotheray) 

When you're too old for the swings 

You tend to choose the slide 

And they never seem to warn you 

The slide's your final ride 

And when you're at the top of it 

And you cannot see the end 

Either don't let go son - Or grab the nearest friend 

The slide is no respecter of dignity or class 

As soon as you sit down on it 

That slide has got your ass 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

Heroes and villains have tried and cried 

A broken soul at the bottom lies denied 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

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When the slide was invented 

A thousand drinkers sighed 

They thought they had the copyright 

On the very word the slide 

It's a picture of innocence 

On which the innocent have fried 

Take the helter skelter son 

It's easier than the slide 

Advice to listening parents 

Or the father of the bride 

Let them marry anyone 

But don't let her take the slide 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

Heroes and villains have tried and cried 

A broken soul at the bottom lies denied 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

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It'll take you much much lower 

Than you ever would have asked 

'Cause as soon as you sit down on it 

The slide has got your ass - It's customers are fools 

And every one of them deceased 

The long and silver murderer 

The devil must have greased 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

Heroes and villains have tried and cried 

A pile of broken souls at the bottom it denied 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide 

Heroes and villains have tried and cried 

A broken soul at the bottom it denied 

Don't take the slide, don't take the slide