The High Life - Tom McRae, Tom McRae & the Standing Band

It seemed like such a good idea

Stake your claim boys and you can make it here

But now we’re down in the mud

The quick and not quick enough

Are both bleeding

And yeah tomorrow’s long gone

Sold for a song that I’m stealing

I’m always on the run and I hate copy paste for god’s sake

We can light a fire now

With all that’s left to burn

And warm our hands on failed plans

And new leaves left unturned

In the high life, the high life

The high life, the high life

Look around now tell me all’s not lost

Take the coin boys from where your heart once was

Now heaven is lying empty

And all the devil’s here

We can drink our bellies full

But never quench the first

And we can burn the spinning wheels

But when you’re cursed, you’re cursed

With a taste for the high life

The high life

The high life, the high life

Shut up all my life

I’ve been hearing the voices

Of the silver spoon

Of the perfect smile

Of your gilded lives

I know now in your veins

There will only be blue blood

Come on, cut me now you will find

That I bleed the blackest bile

I know now none of your kind

Is ever on my side

So the rich stay the rich

And the rest forever be denied

The high life