The Great Escape Lyrics - I Am Kloot

You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion 

You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made 

You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses 

You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay 

You want to learn to live like earnerest the crat (an aristocrat) 

You bought your girlfriends earrings well that soon put paid to that 

and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears 

You could dream of stuck old wallpaper and crystal chandeliers 

You cashed in your cards now you want to buy some glamour 

You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope 

A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics 

They got you in histerics, and walked off with your soul 

and with that cheap, skate, royalty, you get your flag and wave 

Well I saw you on TV grinning at the motorcade 

Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, string them up like drapes 

So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape 

You hung around to long, your mother read your letters 

You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone 

The time the morning slips, blends into your wallpaper 

and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong 

and your fathers at the factory that makes money seeling guns 

To fight the wars that spends the lives of all the peoples sons 

Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, and we'll string them up like drapes 

So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape 

You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion 

You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made 

You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made