View - One Off Pretender lyrics

Living on them pills, he was 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 wanted 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 who pretends that I'm not happy Picking life off the shelf He taught me time wasted is time spent well The a man's dead if he doesn't have a story to tell Dead if he's lying in a dirty jail cell 'Cause 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 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 You won't get a sun tan in this government shade Does it make you quiver a little the way they say That we're gonna f** you Take a little bit of freedom away everyday 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