One Off Pretender - The View

Living on them pills lying in squalor,

That’s the life of the late night bar crawler

Most outrageous man I met he once said, «I could take a belly full of lead and

wouldn’t wind up dead.»

He wants his song to make you shiver a little like there’s a ghost coming your

way

Have you ever been told that something’s forever, and had your heart broken the

very next day.

Shout it from the rooftop

You can shout it from the rooftop

But you can’t tell it to the paper, they’ve already been paid

To be ten different people that’s easy, it’s easier than being yourself

I’m the one off pretender I’m not happy, picking life off the shelf

He taught me, time wasted, is time spent well

The mans dead if he doesn’t have a story to tell

Dead if he’s lying in a dirty jail cell

Coz when your down they’ll kick you, the jury doesn’t matter at all

The jury doesn’t matter at all

Tell me officer when your baton kissed me, did it make you feel tall?

And no one asked you where you come from,

No one told you of these times,

And no one asked you where you come from,

No one told you of these times.

This is your life don’t waste it,

Why don’t you run away?

A man to reckon with he knows how to persuade,

Says you won’t get a sun tan in this government shade,

Does it make you quiver a little, the way they say,

«We're gonna fuck you, take a little bit of freedom away every day.

You can shout it from the rooftops

You can shout it from the rooftops

You can shout it from the rooftops

But you can’t tell it to the paper, they’ve already been paid.