These Four Walls lyricsOn The Lost Album (late 1980s - unreleased)
These Four Walls (Hugh McDonald) She's up every morning at 7 o'clock Gets her husband off to work and the kids to school By 9 o'clock she's alone with her thoughts A heavy heart and a whole day to kill She's alone in the suburbs And she knows that she's been fooled She says there must be more to life and I'm gonna find out Sometimes I want to scream Sometimes I want to shout There must be more to life than staring at these four walls She married so young, when she was 17 Then the kids came along and changed everything He never touched her anymore At night he turned away Said he was tired from working all day And there were other women And she could not understand She'd never had another man She says there must be more to life and I'm gonna find out Sometimes I want to scream Sometimes I want to shout There must be more to life than staring at these four walls And the nights get longer And the silence gets so loud The children grew up While she counted grey hairs Seemed life had passed her by Caught her unawares Pills to go to sleep pills to stay awake All the time she knew she was making a mistake She couldn't live without it And she couldn't live with it So she knew she had to stop She says there must be more to life and I'm gonna find out Sometimes I want to scream Sometimes I want to shout There must be more to life than staring at these four walls |