Life keeps you in check

[Phoenix]

This one's for Alf'

These young boys!
They just let life pass them by......by the time you get to 50 you realise.....

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...

[BlasterBates]

...aha sounds like the British dream.

Get a job in the smoke on a "top paid" salary, then buy a terraced house in the Islington for half-a-million, second hand Porsche with cracked pistons. Spend 11 hours a day at work, return home to the smell of mould and a view out the window resembling Gotham City before Batman, and then at the weekend go into work to help pay off the enormous mortgage.