With One Eye On Getting Their Pay

With one eye on getting their pay
The lackeys of the well-off say
That we always are the best
And new ways get us nowhere

Nothing changes, nothing changes, for the best

Look in the bible you will see how
The people went on the same as now
They cheated and lied the same
They loved and died the same

Nothing changes, nothing changes, for the best

The well-off pray there'll be no more change
To the perfect world they've made
After all if fair Britain stays the same
They'll hold onto their ill-gotten ways

Whenever the mentally unsound
Try to turn our lives upside down
They hope to improve the world
They have only made it worse

Nothing changes, nothing changes, for the best

The well-off pray there'll be no more change
To the perfect world they've made
After all if fair Britain stays the same
They'll hold on to their ill-gotten things

With one eye on getting their pay
The lackeys of the well-off say
That we our always the best
And new ways get us nowhere

Nothing changes, nothing changes, for the best

notes:

Malcolm:

Here's a song I'd completely forgotten about, that I had to play again. We recorded the songs about
this time in Midnight Records' studios, and Nick Ralph, Midnight's manager, gave us all the time we wanted. I don't suppose he made much money for his trouble because Midnight went bankrupt a few years later. But anyway we had plenty of time to work on drum and guitar sounds, etc. I think that's why our later songs generally sound better. Plus we were working with Kevin Harris, a producer and engineer who we got on very well with. He was good at getting the sounds we were aiming at. We also started adding keyboards, which is surprising because none of us could play. Here I think I did the solo, which sounds relatively difficult, so I must have had about two hundred stabs at it.

found on: The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth, Get a Knife Between Your Teeth

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