Paradise Estate Lyrics - The Painted Word - Television Personalities

Mrs. Brown wakes up every morning 

She takes the milk from her doorstep 

Puts on a pair of faded carpet slippers 

And walks a painful mile to the launderette 

Her husband Jack is slowly dying 

Asbestos poisoning had riddled his insides 

He got his pension six years early 

When they took away his job they took away his pride 

Mrs. Wilson sets her clock for seven 

To see the children off to school 

She can't afford to give them breakfast 

Well not as a rule 

Her husband Jack has run away 

Gone with the barmaid from the Roses' Crown 

Picks up her prescription every Friday 

She's heading for her second nervous breakdown 

Jennifer Lee is only seventeen 

She had a baby when she was still at school 

Her parents have disowned her 

And the social service barely calls 

The father was a boy she met at a party 

Her sister Debbie's twenty-first 

She can't remember his face or his name very well 

Anyway he probably doesn't remember her 

And every day's the same 

On paradise estate 

Because paradise came one day too late 

We all live in little boxes 

Boxes made of bricks 

Boxes for unmarried mothers 

Elderly and sick 

Graffiti on the walls 

Tells it all 

"Gary loves July" 

National Front slogans 

"Jesus is coming" 

"Kilroy was here" 

But paradise came one day too late 

On paradise estate