Couldn't Get Ahead - The Fall

Come out of pub, the shop is closed

Come out of pub, Harry wants to know

When the next bus is I said five or ten minutes

I had my change in my hands

The bus flashes past.

My hands are caught

Couldn’t get ahead.

I just couldn’t get ahead.

In a week, earned money for month

Got all my jobs done

My eyelids were sick of it Gist was I could sleep for a day?

But bad bills have no respect for a decent man’s rest

Flopping on the doorstep

Outlined in color red

Couldn’t get ahead.

Just couldn’t get ahead.

On an Asiatic plane with wings not of the grain

Toilet queue was endless

Couldn’t get a beer

The hostesses were muslims

When I get in toilet,

Light flashes: «Return to seat.»

I feared withdrawal

And I feared beer was making sludge of my head.

Couldn’t get ahead.

Just couldn’t get ahead.

Now my problems are solved

It’s a remedy of old

I pretend I’m blind you see

Put on some Armani clothes

And act like ET

Where I’m at is a cabbage patch,

no longer strewn with weeds

Have a Ghandi at me Colour mags wish me well

No more, no get ahead.

Couldn’t get ahead.

Just couldn’t get ahead.