Story Behind The Song

Book of Ecclesiastes!

Song Description

Cynical comment on worldwide social malaise

Lyrics

Everything Swerves To Rot

Easy to claim that we?re something we?re not
But we can be thankful for what we have got
Maybe never thought that you?d make it this far
Strung like the neck on an old guitar
It may not be Tattler, OK or Hello!
You never appeared on the late, late show
No gossip column interest in the places you go
Your hi-lights can afford to be low
?Cos you?re just an ordinary Jo!

A different story now sells magazines
?Phone a friend? millionaires and lottery dreams
Internet companies and software tycoons
Overnight sensations that spoke far too soon
Actors and anarchists and ageing rock stars
With pre-nup agreements and alimony scars
Hostages of fame recognised in the bar
And wishing that now they were not
?Cos everything swerves to rot!

Richer or poorer, for better or worse
All looks the same when you?re inside the hearse
Eat, drink, be merry and treasure your lot
And be thankful for what you have got
?Cos everything swerves to rot!

Catwalk high fashion and heroin chic
Celebrities cook with the flavour of the week
Desperate dictators plot military coups
Jackson look-alikes ending up like Howard Hughes
MP?s with sound bites looking for a cause
Sycophants and crazed fans and Ozzy soap stars
It?s life, not as we know it, let?s all head for Mars
The voice of the aliens call
And all I say ?God help us all!?


Cos richer or poorer, for better or worse
All looks the same when you?re inside the hearse
Eat, drink, be merry and treasure your lot
And be thankful for what you have got
?Cos everything swerves to rot!

So come on you wannabe dreamers and ravers
The world and his dog wish that they could be famous
Fabulously rich, well success to you!
If we had your cash then we?d spend it too
But the moral of life about riches and fame
Is not what you?ve got or who you can blame
For a heart that?s at peace at the end of the day
There?s only the one thing to do
Get a life before life gets to you!

?Cos richer or poorer?


Phil James
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