The Great Escape
Chasing Dreams Amidst Broken Echoes
Lyrics
You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion
You were born with privileges, symbolized by "football boots and a sun tan complexion."
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
Initially, you believed you had a successful life upon reflection.
You shrugged and smiled and made the usual excuses
You shrugged off challenges, smiled, and made typical excuses in the face of difficulties.
You suffered small abuses, and settled for their pay
You endured small abuses and settled for mediocre rewards.
You want to learn to live like earnerest the crat (an aristocrat)
You aspire to live a luxurious life akin to an aristocrat.
You bought your girlfriends earrings well that soon put paid to that
Your attempts at impressing others, like buying earrings for your girlfriends, proved futile.
and if the whole world came crashing, down around your ears
Even in the face of a global crisis, you find solace in mundane dreams.
You could dream of stuck old wallpaper and crystal chandeliers
Amid chaos, you escape reality by dreaming of a better, more opulent life.
You cashed in your cards now you want to buy some glamour
You've relinquished your advantages and now seek a glamorous lifestyle.
You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope
You are captivated by superficial allure, like a new soap on a rope.
A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics
Fake personalities, disguised as authority figures, bring amusement but steal your essence.
They got you in histerics, and walked off with your soul
You find things amusing but lose a part of yourself to deceptive influences.
and with that cheap, skate, royalty, you get your flag and wave
Royalty, though cheap and unworthy, becomes a symbol for which you wave your flag.
Well I saw you on TV grinning at the motorcade
Your public image on TV is one of smiling at authority figures, like a passing motorcade.
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, string them up like drapes
An impending reckoning for traitors is suggested, paralleling the fate of traitors in history.
So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape
The desire to live freely, reminiscent of Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape."
You hung around to long, your mother read your letters
You lingered too long, and your actions became evident through your letters to your mother.
You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone
You pretended to be ambitious, but in reality, you've come and gone without achieving much.
The time the morning slips, blends into your wallpaper
Time slips away, blending into the ordinary aspects of life.
and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong
You could escape before, but something went wrong in your life journey.
and your fathers at the factory that makes money seeling guns
Your father is involved in a business that profits from selling weapons for wars.
To fight the wars that spends the lives of all the peoples sons
Wars consume the lives of many, represented as the sons of the people.
Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, and we'll string them up like drapes
Reiteration of impending consequences for traitors, using the metaphor of hanging them like drapes.
So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape
The desire for freedom, akin to Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape," persists.
You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion
Repetition of the privileged background you were born into.
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
A reminder that despite initial beliefs, your life is not as successful as you once thought.
You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made
A reflection on the disillusionment with the initial perception of having it all made.
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