Couldnt get ahead

I just couldnt get ahead





Come out of pub, the shop is closed

Come out of pub, harry wants to know

When the next bus is

I said five or ten minutes

I had my change in my hands

The bus flashes past.

My hands are caught







Couldnt get ahead. I just couldnt get ahead.







In a week, earned money for month

Got all my jobs done

My eyelids were sick of it

Gist was I could sleep for a day?

But bad bills have no respect for a decent mans rest

Flopping on the doorstep

Outlined in color red







Couldnt get ahead. just couldnt get ahead.







On an asiatic plane with wings not of the grain

Toilet queue was endless

Couldnt get a beer

The hostesses were muslims

When I get in toilet,

Light flashes: "return to seat."

I feared withdrawal

And I feared beer was making sludge of my head.







Couldnt get ahead. just couldnt get ahead.







Now my problems are solved

Its a remedy of old

I pretend Im blind you see

Put on some armani clothes

And act like et

Where Im at is a cabbage patch,

No longer strewn with weeds

Have a ghandi at me

Colour mags wish me well

No more, no get ahead.







Couldnt get ahead. just couldnt get ahead.