So Goodbye lyricsOn If You Don't Fight You Lose (1978)
So Goodbye (John Schumann) I loved your home in Springfield And your chauffer-driven-Jag But the afternoons at the yacht squadron Really are a drag Your country home at Aldgate Your horses and your friends The alcoholic sunsets, the pleasure never ends I’ve just begun to notice the cold steel in your eyes So I say to you goodbye As she goes on asking why I’ve spoken to your tather he’s a self-made millionaire Do you know where his factories are Do you know who lives there In squash little red-brick homes far away from here They’re ugly and they’re all the same The neighbours live so near The way my family’s living there you’d not believe your eyes So I say to you goodbye As she goes on asking why Your brother’s learning how to drive the Jag in your backyard Your father sits and tells me about How he’s worked so hard Your mother’s introducing me with patronising grace To all her bridge friends in the salon Little cakes and lace My mother’s working night-shift now, she’s working ‘til she dies So I say to you goodbye And she goes on asking why Your father’s firm owns factors not far from where we stay The chimneys spewing thick black smoke Across the night and day The people live and work down there underneath that patch of smog The kids’ backyards are small and bare, too small to keep a dog Don’t tell me that they like it there That’s certainly a lie So I say to you goodbye As she goes on asking why Please don’t cry you’ll find a lover very soon I’m sure A gentleman who’ll bring you roses And lay them at your door It’s not because you’re rich but ‘cause You’re not prepared to think The higher daddy rises the more his workers sink You won’t wake up in time my lady You won’t realize So I say to you goodbye As she goes on asking why So I say goodbye |
1978 "If You Don't Fight You Lose" Album Version
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