Couldn't Get Ahead Lyrics - This Nation's Saving Grace - Fall

Couldn't get ahead 

I just couldn't get ahead 

Come out of pub, the shop is closed 

Come out of pub, Harry 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 week, earned 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 Gandhi at me 

Colour mags wish me well 

No more, no get ahead. 

Couldn't get ahead. Just couldn't get ahead.