Down the Road - The Verlaines

Down the road and after all the money’s gone

I’m only rich in reminiscing what is gone

One more blue dawn with a view I can’t afford

I was king, now I’m pawned

They changed the rules to hell and gone

So let them move me

All I did the kids were always running down

I told them that they’d have time to think it out

When they’re old, slow and ugly and got nothing to their name

They don’t have much to say now I’ve been replaced

With a half-arsed kid half my age

His suit don’t fit, for him they pay half the wages

I won’t starve and I don’t need money to burn

I never set my heart on foreign cars and trips all over the world

And I don’t have to be concerned

Cos what you don’t spend, you don’t have to earn

And I don’t need that bundle of nerves

It took me to get to work each day

But where do I go

When my day is already over at 8 am

By Monday, all the money’s gone