Hard Life In The Country Lyrics - Fall

It's hard to live in the country 

In the present state of things 

Your body gets pulled right back 

You get a terrible urge to drink 

At 3AM 

The stick people recede 

The locals get up your nose 

And leather soles stick on cobble stones 

It's hard to live in the country 

It has a delicate ring 

Nymphet new romantics come over the hill 

It gets a bit depressing 

Paper local 

Drunken scandal 

Publish your address as well 

Locals surround where you dwell 

Old ladies confiscate your gate railings 

For government campaigns 

Its tough in home country 

Councils hold the ring 

D. Bowie lookalikes 

Permeate car parks 

Grab the churches while you can 

Port-a-loos 

Yellow cabins by Methodist doors 

New Jersey car parks permeated by 

D. Bowie sound-alikes 

It's good to live in the country 

You can get down to real thinking 

Walk around look at geometric tracery 

Hedgehogs skirt around your leathered soles 

Fall down drunk on the road 

It's good to live in the country 

Look at yourself as a man 

The valley rings with ice-cream vans 

It's good to live in the country 

Leather soles stick on precinct flagstones 

Small up town Americas like your outskirt town 

The villagers 

Are surrounding the house 

The locals have come for their due 

It's hard to live in the country