Seen It All Before Lyrics - Rules For Jokers - Thea Gilmore

Kerosene Kathy is bringing in the mail 

Its a 50/50 choice 

Pass go or go to jail 

You can see her with her matches on the pavement in the rain 

Glowing by the light of this southbound train 

She's shouting good Christian soldiers stamp their ration book with failure 

And twinkle little Stalin's hung his hat up on my nail you're 

Gonna wish you had of fought 

When your last breath comes 

Cos we never want for nothing 'cept a little freedom 

And I've seen it all before 

And I've seen it all before 

Well they brought me to the bars when I was fourteen 

A sexy little girl and a seedy little magazine 

The painted out my life 

On a page of black and white 

Cos there's no call for justice when you're dealing in spite 

And I landed on a tightrope on the hookline of a dare 

A little ragged at the edges but not beyond repair 

With a hole in every pocket and half a bag of tricks 

But it was nothing that a tenner and a bullet couldn't fix 

And I've seen it all before 

And my money is on anger 

They say the form is good 

They say the odds are stacked 

And this side of Birmingham's a good place to be 

When they finally light the match 

And I've seen it all before 

Just wait till they see me out on the front page 

Just wait till they remember how they stroked this rage 

Shining like a penny in the back slum gutter 

Like a single note sonata in the train conductors stutter 

Make sure they get to see me when I'm hanging from the ceiling 

Get each detail of exactly how they're feeling 

Cos Five have got the rights to the docu-soap shows 

They'll buy the truth off with some donuts and a sweet red rose 

And I've seen it all before