The King Blues - The Future's Not What It Used To Be lyrics

Well outside on the street at 5am you know the world has a different face And at dawn in the park as the sunbeams break, the drunks sing amazing grace While the ladies of the night take flight as a big bright light comes crashing down You and I put the world to rights, in this forgotten little part of town Well I heard that they say that the traffic wardens dances dick van Dyke does Throwing shapes around parking meters, to adored rapturous applause Singing 5 part harmonies and jumping over cars while others dare to sleep With this city is my playground, yeah my circus is my street Singing now, woah the future's not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light Woah the future's not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light When they came to collect the names of the lads who want to sign up for the army They said they wanna grow up to be a G, gave up on trying be like dad the sparky Why run around 360, like a dog chasing his tail Or the schoolgirls dressed like hookers, the hookers dressed like schoolgirls Singing now, woah the future's not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light Woah the future's not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light k**ing and drilling, well it's all they understand In the Middle East and Afghanistan They fight over turf, they fight over land If you give them a ting-a-ling While their trigger finger lingers With the second gun slingers They fight over that There's no unity, just to you and and me Trying to keep our head above the lunacy It's just the way we're living And we will never give in To this -ism schism prison That all men and women live in They war over guns, they war over god War over land and they war over d** They war, they war, they war over love War over which god watches from above They war over oil, they war over race Some of them are warring just to save face They war, they war, they war over debt If it's a war they want, it's a war they'll get Singing now, woah the future's not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light Woah the future's not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light [x2]