A Bellyful Of Emptiness Lyrics - Skyclad

I'm twenty six years old - please tell me what have I got 

A monopoly on misery - I guess that's my lot 

Ten years of eating bullshit leaves it's taste in your mouth 

And I think the time has come for me to spit it all out... 

'Cause at the end of the tunnel I see 

A dole-queue that's beckoning me. 

Yes living hand-to-mouth it can be fun for a while 

Simple things please simple minds - do you see me smile? 

I've broke my bread and fishes - turned my water to wine 

But I'm sick of walking tightrope on the poverty line 

I left my home and family - I've pawned all my dreams 

Took a second mortgage on my soul to further my schemes 

Now my body's in the pages of "exchange and mart" 

Ten pounds or nearest offer for one slightly broken heart. 

And at the end of the rainbow I found 

A crock of shit there on the ground. 

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Have you had a bellyful of emptiness 

Do you feel like me we're all just wasting our time 

If it's true inside each cloud's a silver lining 

Why does it shine on other lives but not on mine? 

I've had a bellyful of emptiness 

I've got a pocketful of nothing at all 

In real-life fairy tales the frog stays a frog 

And the serving girl can't be the belle of the ball. 

You're not the belle of the ball 

Get back in your cinders and crawl 

How many other fools like me 

Have lost their lives contractually 

Believing there must be far more 

Than nine to five - the factory floor? 

Have countless thousands watched their dreams 

Corrupted into things obscene 

By money minded bastards who 

Don't give a damn for me or you? 

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Now my wallet's getting thinner like the hair on my head 

By the time I hit the "big Time" I'll be buried and dead 

Tell me how can you resent me for the money I've spent 

On the only habit I indulge (that's paying the rent)? 

No-one said this life was easy Christ I've known that all along 

But it needn't be this difficult that's why I wrote this song 

The sex and drugs and rock 'n 'roll were never meant to last 

And the bailiffs knocking on your door don't need a backstage pass! 

Be sure that you read between their lines 

There are claws in the contracts we sign. 

Have you had a bellyful of emptiness 

Do you feel like me we're all just wasting our time 

If it's true inside each cloud's a silver lining 

Why does it shine on other lives but not on mine? 

I've had a bellyful of emptiness 

I've got a pocketful of nothing at all 

In real-life fairy tales the frog stays a frog 

And the serving girl can't be the belle of the ball.