Bright New Day - Kiki Dee

Oh, bright new day!

We’re movin' away

Mam, what’s up?

We’re startin' all over again

Is it a summons mother?

Oh, bright new day!

We’re movin' away

Sammy!

Where nobody’s heard of our name

I never done nothin'!

Honest, mam!

Where we can begin again

Feel we can win and then

Live just like living should be

Got a new situation

A new destination

No reputation followin' me!

What is it?

What is it?

We’re getting out

We’re moving house

We’re startin' all over again

Yeah!

We’re leaving this mess

For our new address

65 Skelmersdale Lane

Where’s that, mam?

Is that in the country?

What’s it like there?

Where the air is so pure you get drunk just by breathing

The washing stays clean on the line

And there’s space for the kids

'Cause the garden’s that big

It’ll take you a week just to reach the far side

(spoken)

Come on Sammy, Mickey, you’ve all gorra help

Er, please excuse us, we’ve gorra pack

We’re movin'

(sung)

What did she say?

They’re movin' away

Praise the Lord, He has delivered us at last!

They’re getting out

They’re moving house

Life won’t be the same as in the past

I can safely predict a sharp drop in the crime rate

It’ll be calm and peaceful 'round 'ere

And now I might even get paid what is mine

An' you’ll see the graffiti will soon disappear

Just pack up the bags

We’re leaving the rags

The wobbly wardrobe

Chest of drawers that doesn’t close

The two-legged chair

The carpet so bare

You wouldn’t see it if wasn’t for the holes

Now that we’re movin'

Now that we’re improvin'

Let’s just wash our hands of this lot

It’s no longer fitting for me to be sitting

On a sofa I know for a fact was knocked off

We might get a car

Be all la-dee-dah

Beep beep!

Go driving out to the sands

Mickey!

Sammy!

The sands, yeah!

And at the weekend

A gentleman friend

Might take me dancing to the local bands

We’ll have a front room

And then if it should happen

His Holiness flies in from Rome

He can sit there with me

Eating toast, drinking tea

In the sort of surroundings that remind him of home

(spoken)

It’s like the country, isn’t it, mam?

You’ll be alright out here, son.

Away from the muck and the dirt and the bloody

trouble.

I could dance — come 'ere!

Get off!

Get off!

(sung)

Oh, bright new day

We’re movin' away

We’re startin' all over again

All over again!

Oh, bright new day

We’re movin' away

Where nobody’s heard of our name

(spoken)

What’re you laughin' at?

I’m not laughin', I’m smilin'.

I haven’t seen you happy like this for ages, mam!

I am happy now, son.

But, hey, where’s the others?

They went into that field over there, mam

Sammy.

Sammy, get off that bleedin' cow before I kill ya!

Christ,

what’s our Donna Marie stepped into?

Sammy, that cow’s a bull!

Come 'ere the

pair of ya!

(sung)

Now we can begin again

Feel we can win and then

Live just like living should be

Got a new situation

A new destination

No reputation followin' me!

We’re gettin' out

We’re movin' house

We’re goin' away

We’re gettin' out today

Gettin' out today

We’ve movin', movin' movin', we’re movin', we’re movin'

Movin' house

We’re goin' away

Oh, bright new day!