How Much Light - Jape

How much light

Can you waste in your lifetime

The sun will have to go

It’s too big and it’s too slow

Oh, what’s a cruel word

It’s just a sound

That’s reflected through

Your ears into your brain

It’s the meaning that gets changed

And oh, what a waste

To be lazy when you’re young

To be lazy

At all, at all, at all, at all

These filthy streets

They’ve got middle *#$@

The city is a beak

On a bird which cannot fly

The marketing book

And that cheap cotton shirt

Will get you off this bus

But it will put you straight back home

And oh, what a waste

To be lazy when you’re young

To be lazy

At all, at all, at all, at all

And I might as well tell you now

We all share the same terrible fate

And I might as well tell you now

Your retirement won’t be too late

Peace on earth

And goodwill to fall in creatures

The sun will have to go

It’s too big and it’s too slow