Even Out - Lazy Habits

Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack

Who was always looking forwards and never looking back

The careers officers at our school always used to

Say that Jack was the one who had the brighter future

But now Jack’s dead with a crack in his head

Slumped in an alley like a sackful of lead

It was the crack they said but, I know better

Cause I knew Jill was trouble from the moment that I met her

She was not just a pretty face, had a hat rack

Knew that dreams disappear like pussy out the cat flap

Round her little finger she had Jack wrapped

Till that lab rat thought that he was in the rat pack

But when cat meats rat, only one winner

Law dictates that one becomes dinner

True that at night he could ignite a light in her

But could he make a grand on the streets like Mike Skinner

So

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Looking back on the course of events

I see what Jack had in heart he was lacking in sense

Jill was into fashion and she studied in Kent

She had enough money for shoes but never for rent

She needed money quick and Jack knew a fast way

Started selling class A’s to all Jill’s classmates

Led him half way down a dark pathway

I said 'I don’t care if you’re making a killing Jack that’s a daft way'

Try to make a living, if you ask me your arse may

End up in prison where it’s ghastly

And when you’re sick and feeling queasy and your arse aches

Picking up the pieces won’t be easy like when glass breaks

Him 'Me and Jill moving in to the house on the hill in Ill

And she’s only willing if I’m continuing dealing

Besides I’m making a killing, moving a kilo

It’ll all be fine and dandy' 'Jack it’s not even the Beano'

So

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Truth is me and Jill we go way back

Started in a bar and grill, finished in a haystack

And when it ended guess the wounds never mended

She went from 'please please please' to the big payback

I guess I always figured it came down to the day that

Her dad went for a cigarette and never came back

Her mum never wrote a note, put on an overcoat

Took an overdose, lay down on a train track

Shame that, but that’s how life goes

One minute you’re an innocent the next you’re a pyscho

The night Jack died I saw Jill in her nightclothes

Blood dripping from her right hand holding a pipe hose

Looking round at the state of the slaughter

I said 'Jill you’d better get a pail of the water'

The truth is I never really liked Jack

And now I’ve got your flat hat, crack and your cat

So

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down does it ever even out, does it even even out, even out in the long run

Deep down it will never even out, does it even even out, even out in the long

run

Deep down it will never even out, does it even even out, even out in the long

run

Deep down it will never even out, does it even even out, even out in the long

run

Deep down it will never even out, does it even even out, even out in the long

run

Deep down it will never even out, does it even even out, even out in the long

run