Up On The Down Side

Ocean Colour Scene · Anthology [2005]

Up On The Downside



This England made me

Between the war and a rockets flying

You found the crib it saves me

And teach me wrong and right



Then the world was talking

But never got its chance to say

When there's too much talking

Nobody hears a word you say



And you won't see

And baby now I won't hear

These blind communications

Only last throughout the year

And half of what we're saying

Is halfway near the truth

And blind communications

For a million hearts and fools



I am a witness

To a land of a million fools

All placing bets on life

And hate the ones who lose

And all who're lonely

And never get the chance to say

That their one and only

Would be the chance to even play



Hello Monday

The weekend's just a blur

I've been burning bridges

And now I'm begging at your door

So I'll keep on working

'Cos it's a chance for me to pay

But too much talking

When you believed the words I say