Welly Boots - The Amazing Devil

Awake awake you children bold

Take hold of all your books and fold

The corners, they warned us

A storm is coming on

What do you mean you’ve lost

Your scarlet welly boots, do y’know what they cost?

Wear a raincoat or it’ll soak you to the bone

What's it like, the children ask?

It’s just like falling snow, I am above you,

And I love you, don’t you know

That I’ll be with you all along, as long as you are kind

To those who are not strong and cannot find their scarlet welly boots

Cos when it’s cold

I’ll wrap my scarf around you

And when it’s hard

I’ll place your head into my hands

And when you scream that it’s not fair,

It’s like I’ve gone off to the coast

Left you behind just standing there

Pretending not to see your ghost

If only you could hear my voice

But you are screaming far to loud to hear me swear

Just because I left doesn’t mean that I’m not still there

I get to watch you grow up now

And make me proud, make all of the mistakes that make me laugh, oh darling lord how you make me laugh

Get drunk for me, sing louder than you’ve sung for me,

Grow young each time that thunder in your lungs begins to rumble at the world

Cos you were always strong,

When you were young, you’d kick things just to see if they would fall

They said ‘that girl she’s wrong’

But I’ll stick up for you, even though you haven’t got a clue, you haven't got a fucking clue

And I’m so proud of you

And when they laugh at us

You’ll feel my fingers down your back

And when you scream I’m not alright

And throw my picture at the wall

‘You were supposed to be my light

And keep me safe against them all

How could you leave me here' you’ll scream

And louder, I’ll scream back to you from that unknown

And say

I know you’re strong enough to do this on your own

I know you’re strong enough to do this on your

Strong enough to do this on your

Strong enough to do this on your own

And years from now at night that storm

Will break, you’ll step outside to feel it shake

And barefoot walk across the lawn

You’ll miss me oh Jesus Christ you’ll miss me

Just much as all those years ago, and you’ll look up at the storm

You’ll say ‘I’ve been so scared,

you left me here behind, do you not care?

How the fuck am I supposed to carry on without you here?

Just when you’re about to give up every hope you have you turn around Perched by the stairs, someone’s gone and left behind

A brand new pair of scarlet welly boots