PRETTY THING:



All these people hanging round

Waiting for the world to change

All this pressure coming down

Life is not a pretty thing

Standing in the pouring rain

Lonely eyes and soaking skin

Wishing it was yesterday

I say life is not a pretty thing

Trying hard to make it work

Losing all my faith in God

Shaking hands shaking heads



Why, please tell me why

Is all this sorrow and suffering

Still going on

All they ever wanted was a chance to live

Sometimes I just wonder

Can they forgive, how can they still forgive



All these people running scared

Seen so many times before

Life is something to be shared

Life is not a pretty thing

I can't see the sense in this

Where has all the feeling gone



Woke up this morning with a pain in my head

Tried to work it out but I went back to bed

This ain't the way that it's supposed to be

This is not the day

This is not me



Half my life is wasted the rest does not exist

They're writing to papers

They're making out lists

Searching for reasons why everythings a mess

Why we sit and take it is anybodys guess



And oh, life is not a pretty thing

Life is not pretty, pretty

Life is not a pretty thing

Pretty thing

Pretty thing

When you're shaking hands and breaking heads