Working 9 to 5

Starting as soon as you wake with lessons in your head

Automatic driving wishing you were at home in bed

School gates closed waiting for the madness to begin

Preparing your face for the lasting teacher’s grin

 

Not just a teacher but a parent, carer, doctor or nurse

Trying to achieve while the government tightens its purse

After school club takes the pressure away for a while

But then back at the desk with work that stretches a mile

 

If you have a family then they take second best

Your partner and your children beg you to rest

The unseen hours that tick away at your life

Governments stabbing you with the education knife

 

If we only worked 9 to 5 the job wouldn’t get done

We put in the hours so your children can have fun

Children learning to be the best that they can be

Everyone of them developing is all we want to see

 

League tables and lists have spoilt the profession

Targets and levels have become an obsession

We all fight to keep the enthusiasm alive

That’s why we never will work 9 to 5!

Set me free

I felt trapped in a cage, I couldn’t get out

Unable to scream, unable shout

Then I found you and you had the only key

Now I can fly, you have set me free

 

The world is the same place, but I see it differently

You made me open my eyes, you have me completely

With you I can fly as high as a bird

Flying with someone who showed they cared

 

The world’s colours blinding my opened eyes

No longer saddend, only happy cries

The cage has been opened and we now fly as one

All those negative thoughts, wiped, finally gone

 

My freedom flight is going to be long and fulfilling

On the world’s stage I now have top billing

Freedom has arrived without me paying a price

Set free forever, I didn’t need to think twice

Sleepless night

Another sleepless night

What did I do wrong?

Fell in love with the wrong girl

This night seems so long

 

The empty space beside me

Where you once lay

How could I have been so stupid

Tomorrow’s another day

 

I always thought you cared

But I was just a joke

Using me for your selfish gains

Now I am broke

 

You’re now fixed inside my head

Over thinking crowding my mind

Was I just delusional?

Or were you that unkind

 

Where do I go from here?

Crying myself to sleep

Trying to figure it all out

Counting endless lines of endless sheep

 

Do you know you have done?

Heartbreak isn’t easy to get over

Crushed my simple life

The highs only come when I’m no longer sober

Why?

Why?

 

Why do people lead you on?

Why don’t they miss you when you’ve gone?

Why do they do it for their own personal gain?

Why do they leave you with so much pain?

 

Why don’t them make things clear?

Why do they turn their back and sneer?

Why aren’t they honest from the start?

Why do they set out to break your heart?

 

Why do they say it’s not you it’s me?

Why don’t they realise I can see?

Why do they say ‘You’re just too nice’?

Why don’t people look at me twice?

 

Why do they use me then throw me away?

Why do they only call when it’s a rainy day?

Why don’t the ever answer your call?

Why do they watch you rise then fall?

 

Why is it easier to write than talk face to face?

Why are you always looking a me to replace?

Why leave the truth and commit to a lie?

Why the brave face when I want to cry?

Chasing the unchaseable

Hard to understand why I do it

Why do I always fail?

Like a harbour that has everything

That ship has finally set sail

 

Lower your standards I hear you cry

But why would I do that?

Like wearing your very best outfit

Without the perfect hat

 

Chorus

Chasing the unchaseable is all I ever do

Living in my own dream world

A world that doesn’t include you

But how can I change this outlook

Chasing the girl again

Searching for the right one

Is driving me insane

 

Time to find that someone special

But who is this Miss Right?

Is she someone who I already know?

Or is she out of my sight?

 

Bridge

The dream I have is the life I need

Wanting it to happen, I now believe

I can no longer keep chasing the unchaseable goal

Another girl, my heart stole

Itinerary

When you’re a child you’re meant to have fun

Dancing in the rain and laughing in the sun

Teenage years upon us and tantrums all around

Feeling rebellious and listening to that sound

Chorus

When it all began, it was all ahead

Life with love life, life without dread

So many choices but how to choose

Some times you win, sometimes you lose

 

Meeting someone special, who blows you away

The dating game commences, then marriage one day

Children follow with so much love to give

A perfect life, a reason to live

 

Bridge

But the itinerary doesn’t happen to everyone

Sometimes you have it and then it’s gone

A moments hesitation and the opportunity passed

Why won’t this happiness last

                                                                    

Lives are mapped out by powers unknown

Some lives in couples, some lives alone

Wishing for the itinerary that other people had

Wanting the itinerary that makes me feel glad

Stringing me along

I felt an attraction that I’d never felt before

When you look at me I stare down to the floor

I dream about strolling through a park hand in hand

It’s the simple things you know, they’ll never understand

                                                                            

My conscience is being pulled for fear of being to nice

Why would someone like you look at someone like me twice

Have I got something thing that you want, something that you need

Will you get what you want then get up and leave?

 

Chorus

Are you just stringing me along?

What you’re doing to me is wrong

Once you’ve got what you need you’ll be gone

I’ll be left feeling like you were the one

(So I guess the question is are you just stringing me along?)

 

People have used me before and I promised never again

Maybe I’m too naïve wanting sunshine when all I get is rain

How is this situation happening? Why is it always me?

What is the secret answer?  Is there a magic key?

 

Bridge

Can we just be honest and tell each other how we feel

Then I’ll know once and for all if this relationship is for real