King For A King Lyrics - Singles - Will Varley

You're six seconds old in the arms of your mother 

Six weeks later, you start to see colour 

And you learn pretty soon, if you cry you get tit 

You learn how to crawl and you learn how to shit 

By the time you can speak, they got you in school 

Where just asking questions is breaking the rules 

Well, ten years later, the system has won 

You've stopped asking questions and sucking your thumb 

On your thirteenth birthday they give you a drink 

Say, "Get it all down, you'll forget how to think!" 

So you tell your first girlfriend you're gonna die young 

At the end of her garden she gives you some tongue 

By fourteen she's left you, well life is unfair 

You've got shey on your t-shirt and spikes in your head 

And your best friend from school said, "Just doesn't suit you!" 

You sit on a wall and you talk of the future, say 

King for a king, eye for an eye 

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky 

If I slip a little whisky now into your cup 

Will you swear that you'll never grow up? 

Swear that you'll never grow up? 

Well your teenage years scar you like daggers 

Your insecurity turns into a swagger 

Defensive as Normandy, lacking maturity 

Drink like a fish, smoke like a chimney 

King for a king, eye for an eye 

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky 

We'll stand on the rooftops, we'll scream and we'll shout 

If you swear that tomorrow we'll work it all out 

If you swear that tomorrow we'll work it all out 

Well by twenty you're starting to run out of steam 

You got no money and can't sell your dreams 

Get a job in an office like a means to an end 

You start wearing shirts and losing your friends 

And one night you meet a girl having a smoke 

She looks alright and she laughs at your jokes 

Well, take it all easy, boy, you can't be lazy 

Watch out, son, you've got a baby, oh 

Six seconds old, in the arms of your lover 

Six weeks later, she starts to see colour 

And you swear that no harm will come to her or her mother 

Your means to an end, well it's starting to suffer, say 

King for a king, eye for an eye 

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky 

Well, at least we can laugh, at least we can smile 

We all just drop in for a while 

Yeah, we all just drop in for a while 

Well, your hair's getting grey now, so is your moustache 

Your best friend from school dies in a car crash 

You bury him, it's raining, you stand by your wife 

You say, "What have I done with my life?" 

Just a name in a family tree, nothing to history 

But me and my woman, that's all that it means to me 

King for a king, eye for an eye 

The birds still sing when they fall from the sky 

Slip a little whisky now into my cup 

And we'll swear that we'll never grow up 

Yeah, we'll swear that we'll never grow up