Hannah and James - Hue & Cry

Who could blame you for falling upon your feet

Wouldn’t anybody else make the best of it?

Now you may be filled up with the finest thoughts

But someday they’ll be the real live test of it

When you make that pencil cross

Your private gain is our public loss

Conscience, that’s a heavy cost

That you’re not prepared to pay, no way, no way

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

In a beautiful world that will never change

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

You will never know hunger or the sting of change

Hannah grows up to be what she wants to be

Making forty-seven K at the worst of times

James’s reaching the heights of his sweet success

On an undiscovered mountain of business crime

And when you make that pencil cross

Your private gain is our public loss

And conscience, that’s a heavy cost

That you’re not prepared to pay, no way, no way

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

In a beautiful world that will never change

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

You will never know hunger or the sting of change

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

In a beautiful world that will never change

Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James

Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James

Brother James

And as the numbers fly overhead

You’re sitting there like the living dead

And as the numbers fly overhead

You’re sitting there like the living dead

And when you make that pencil cross

Your private gain is our public loss

And conscience, that’s a heavy cost

That you’re not prepared to pay, no way, no way

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

In a beautiful world that will never change now

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

You will never know hunger or the sting of change

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

In a beautiful world, why don’t you try to change, change them now

Hannah and James, Hannah and James

In a beautiful world that will never change

Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James

Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James

Brother James

Hard-hearted Hannah