The Great Escape Chords

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EYou were born with F♯mfootball boots and a sBuntan compleExion

 You once Athought that on refF♯mlection, I've rBeally got it made

EYou shrugged and F♯msmiled and made the Busual excEuses

 You Asuffered small aF♯mbuses, and Bsettled for their Epay

AYou want to F♯mlearn to live like aBn aristocErat

ABut your girlfriend's F♯mearrings well they sBoon put pay to that

 and if the Awhole world came F♯mcrashing, dBown around your eEars

 You could Adream of stucco F♯mwallpaper and cBrystal chandeliers

You cashed in your cards now you want to buy some glamour

You really are enamoured, with that new soap on a rope

A thousand fat comedians came in disguised as clerics

They got you in histerics, and walked off with your soul

and with that cheap, skate, royalty, you get your flag and wave

Well I saw you on TV grinning at the motorcade

Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, string them up like drapes

So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape

You hung around to long, your mother read your letters

You grinned like a go-getter, come and got and gone

The time the morning slips, blends into your wallpaper

and once you could escape her, but where did you go wrong

and your fathers at the factory that makes money seeling guns

To fight the wars that spends the lives of all the peoples sons

Pretty soon we'll hang the traitors, and we'll string them up like drapes

So we can ride around like Steve McQueen in the great escape

You were born with football boots and a sun tan complexion

You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made

You once thought that on reflection, you'd really got it made