Happy Hour - The Housemartins

I'm like Stevie Ray Vaughan on the stage, high on music Teeth grindin', sweatin' under the lights But then my boss comes And she's crushin' me with a 20-ton weight Just like in Monty Python Somebody left on the sink, it's still running My eyes are gonna overflow I need happy hour on sad days (sad days) I need happy hour, I can't wait (can't wait) I'm like Ponce de Leon, setting on a ship for the new world Checking out the birds and flowers Let's chill out on this island, I've been Sucking on a lime and coconut, coconut I think I could stay here for the rest of my life Please, don't ever make me go home I need happy hour on sad days (sad days) It's my happy hour, I can't wait (can't wait) Maybe I'll meet a scientist in sweatpants and a hair tie We'll conversate about rare birds and MIDI keyboards And we'll slow dance, head on my shoulder Swing back and forth and my friends are gonna smile Everything's gonna be alright It's my happy hour on sad days (sad days) I need happy hour, I can't wait (can't wait) I need happy hour, to save me Maybe I'll meet a scientist in sweatpants and a hair tie We'll conversate about rare birds and MIDI keyboards And we'll slow dance I need a happy hour, I can't wait (can't wait)

Looking back I see a million little things that wrecked us She never liked my pickup truck parked up beside her Lexus And I never wore them khaki's like she asked me Just trashy old blue jeans Old skoal ring She packed up her Chanel Said 'go to hell', taught me a lesson And now as far as she's concerned I'm in a deep and dark depression But it's happy-hour drinking double shooters Buying whiskey sours for a pack of cougars I know I should be sadder but it all seems silly 'Cause my good buddy went and hooked me up with some Willie Girl, I know a breakup ain't supposed to be fun But I'm here at happy hour, happy-hours is done, yeah And I know she'll hear about my 'paint the town red' gallivanting And she'll think I thought of her curves when I found that gal to dance with And she'll tell her friends I'm faking, my heart's breaking Time will take away my grin But I'm winning every bar I stumble in But it's happy-hour drinking double shooters Buying whiskey sours for a pack of cougars I know I should be sadder but it all seems silly 'Cause my good buddy went and hooked me up with some Willy Girl, I know a breakup ain't supposed to be fun But I'm here at happy hour, happy-hours is done, yeah Well, it'll make her feel much better if she thinks my life is hell Tell her ever since she left me it's like time is standing still And it's happy-hour drinking double shooters Buying whiskey sours for a pack of cougars I know I should be sadder but it all seems silly 'Cause my good buddy went and hooked me up with some Willy Girl, I know a breakup ain't supposed to be fun But I'm here at happy hour, happy-hours is done Yeah, I'm here at happy hour, happy-hours is done, yeah

I used to think you understood Taught me right and learnt me good Made things simple for my brain Told the truth and made it plain But the implications I mistook Until I found out whose side you took And now with paper in my hand I'm beginning to understand So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} From the front page news to the interviews It's sink the reds and lift the blues They pretend they're differing points of view But it's only different shades of blue But the implications I mistook Until I found out whose side you took And now with paper in my hand I'm beginning to understand So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} (Guitar Solo) So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} F.R.E.E.D.O.M. They locked us up once So they'll do it again C.H.A.I.N.E.D. They locked up my friends Now they're coming for me

Please don't show your soul to me I think I'd see the light shine through And please don't greet me on the street I'd like to see a world without you Please don't change your uniform And start to mourn the thousands dead And please wear what you've always worn And don't be drawn by what I've said 'Cause I've found there's nothing more That I could say to you Nothing I could do to change your mind Change your ways and your tune So please don't feel you have to sway Or move away from how you feel And please say what you mean to say And always stay with a heart of steel

Clambering men in big bad boots Dug up my den, dug up my roots Treated us like plasticine town They build us up and knocked us down From Meccano to Legoland Here they come with a brick in their hand Men with heads filled up with sand It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) Whistling men in yellow vans They came and drew us diagrams Showed us how it all worked out And wrote it down, in case of doubt Slow, slow, and quick, quick, quick It's wall to wall and brick to brick They work so fast it makes you sick It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) Oh, build It's build It's build Down with sticks and up with bricks In with boots and up with roots It's in with suits and new recruits It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build)