Lucky Man (Alternate Version; 2012 Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

So, come on ye childhood heroes! Won't you rise up from the pages Of your comic-books, your super crooks And show us all the way Well! Make your will and testament Won't you join your local government? We'll have Superman for president Let Robin save the day So! Where the hell was Biggles When you needed him last Saturday? And where were all the sportsmen Who always pulled you though? They're all resting down in Cornwall Writing up their memoirs For a paper-back edition Of the Boy Scout Manual So you ride yourselves over the fields And you make all your animal deals And your wise men don't know how it feels To be thick as a brick

See there! A man is born And we pronounce him fit for peace There's a load lifted from his shoulders With the discovery of his disease We'll take a child from him Put it to the test Teach it to be a wise man And how to fool the rest We will be geared to the average, rather than the exceptional God is an overwhelming responsibility We walked through the maternity ward And saw 218 babies wearing nylons It says here that cats are on the upgrade Upgrade? Hipgrave Oh, Mac In the clear white circles of morning wonder I take my place with the lord of the hills And the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured In neat little rows sporting canvas frills With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queuing for sarnies at the office canteen Saying: "How's your granny?" and good old Ernie He coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win

The tax man's taken all my dough And left me in my stately home Lazing on a sunny afternoon And I can't sail my yacht He's taken everythin' I've got All I've got's this sunny afternoon Save me, save me Save me from this squeeze I've got a big fat momma tryin' to break me And I love to live so pleasantly Live this life of luxury Lazing on a sunny afternoon In the summertime, in the summertime In the summertime My girlfriend's gone off with my car And gone back to her ma and pa Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty Now I'm sitting here Sipping at my ice cold beer Lazing on a sunny afternoon Help me, help me, help me sail away Well, give me two good reasons Why I ought to stay 'Cause I love to live so pleasantly Live this life of luxury Lazing on a sunny afternoon In Summertime, in summertime In summertime Save me, save me Save me from this squeeze I've got a big fat momma tyin' to break me And I love to live so pleasantly Live this life of luxury Lazing on a sunny afternoon In the summertime, in the summertime In the summertime, in the summertime In the summertime

One girl was called Jean Marie Another little girl was called Felicity Another little girl was Sally Joy The other was me, and I'm a boy My name is Bill, and I'm a head case They practice making up on my face Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair I'm a boy, I'm a boy But my ma won't admit it I'm a boy, I'm a boy But if I say I am, I get it Put your frock on, Jean Marie Plait your hair, Felicity Paint your nails, little Sally Joy Put this wig on, little boy I'm a boy, I'm a boy But my ma won't admit it I'm a boy, I'm a boy But if I say I am, I get it Wanna play cricket on the green Ride my bike across the street Cut myself and see my blood Wanna come home all covered in mud I'm a boy, I'm a boy But my ma won't admit it I'm a boy, I'm a boy But if I say I am, I get it

Lady luck shows my love me Oh, when she blessed me with your loving charms I've found my place in the sun With heaven right here in your arms I feel so lucky, so lucky baby Oh, lucky to be loved by you And I wanna thank you, thank you baby For all the little loving things you do I got to tell the world about it I've got to stand right up and shout it Hey, look at lucky me Ooh baby, ooh baby I don't mind stormy weather The rain no longer makes me blue And I don't care when my friends all get together And leave me out of everything they do It's alright if the sun don't shine It's impossible to darken my day Makes no difference if I don't have a dime I'll be wealthy anyway Mmm, I'm no good without you But listen baby, as long as I got you Hey, look at lucky me, hey, ooh baby In my life, there's no misfortune No struggle or strife today You're my lucky charm, my guiding star So just smile and chase them blues away I can't help it baby, you're so wonderful Oh, how lucky can a-one man be Oh, your tenderness and sweet caress And it all belongs to me I wanna tell the world about it I wanna stand right up and shout it Hey, look at lucky me

Bitches Crystal Knows how you Twist all the lines Fortune teller Future seller Of time Tortured spirits cry Fear is in their eyes Ghostly images die Witches potion Mixed in the ocean Of tears Mystical oowers Emerge from the towers Of fear Tortured spirits cry Fear is in their eyes Ghostly images die Evil learning People burning Savage casting No one lasting Witchcraft Sadness Madness Turning in their minds Evil learning People burning Savage casting No one lasting Witchcraft Sadness Madness Turning in their minds Ritual killings That swear in The shillings to be Heretic priestess Dwells on the Weakness she sees Tortured spirits cry Fear is in their eye Ghostly images die

Jeremy bender was a man of leisure Took his pleasure in the evening sun Laid him down in a bed of roses Finally decided to become a nun Talk with the sister, spoke in a whisper Threatened to fist her if she didn't come clean Jumped on the mother just like a brother Asked one another if the other is a queen Diggin' the sister she was a mister Shouldn't have kissed her, but he couldn't say no Wanted to leave her couldn't believe her So he picked up his suit-case and decided to go