Elbow - Leaders of the Free World Lyrics

I'm sick of working for a living
I'm just ticking off the days till I die
I miss you Louise
And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth

Periscope up
I've been looking for a ladder
I need to see THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
And remind him what was passed onto me

Your mum don't sleep!
The friends you keep!
I didn't raise a thief!

But the LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD
Are just little boys throwing stones
And its easy to ignore 'til they're knocking on the door of your homes

My thinking isn't driven
But the music always gives me a lift
I'm so easy to please
But I think we dropped the baton like the 60's didn't happen. Oh no.

Periscope up
Should be looking for a ladder
I need to se THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
And remind him what was passed onto me

Your mum don't sleep!
The friends you keep!
I didn't raise a thief!

Passing the gun from Father to FECKLESS son
We're climbing a landslide where only the good die young

An Imagined Affair
A sky as black as regret
is rolling aside for the blue
Impossible face to forget
These feelings belong in a zoo

She brings the morning
She brings the morning sun

So lost in the sound of her voice
I don,t even hear the words
When she says come on get out
The past will find us out
Come on get out please
And don't breathe a word

She brings the morning
She brings the morning sun

But all this an imagined affair
While sitting in a bar spilling in a bar
I drink until the doorman is a Christmas tree
And my speech is just a gas leak