What A Waste
Ian Dury & The Blockheads

I could be the driver in an articulated lorry
I could be a poet, I wouldn't need to worry
I could be the teacher in a classroom full of scholars
I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs

What a waste! What a waste!
What a waste! What a waste!

Because I tried to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste!
But the world don't mind

I could be a lawyer with stratagems and muses
I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises
I could be a writer with a growing reputation
I could be the ticket-man at Fulham Broadway station

What a waste! What a waste!
What a waste! What a waste!

Because I tried to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste!
But the world don't mind

I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution
I could be an inmate in a long-term institution
I could lead to wide extremes, I could do or die
I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch them gullify

What a waste! What a waste!
What a waste! What a waste!

Because I tried to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste!
But the world don't mind

Chose to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste!
But the world don't mind
What a waste! What a waste!
But the world don't mind

Chose to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste!
But the world don't mind


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  Apples   Back To Blighty   Ballad Of The Sulphate Strangler   Ban The Bomb   Bed O' Roses No. 9   Billericay Dickie   Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself Around London)   Blackmail Man   Blockheads   Broken Skin   Bus Driver's Prayer   Byline Brown   Cacka Boom   Clever Trevor   Clevor Trever   Common As Muck   Cowboys   Crippled With Nerves   D'Orine The Cow   Dance Little Rude Boy   Dance Of The Crackpots   Dance Of The Screamers   Delusions Of Grandeur   Don't Ask Me   Don't Ask Me   England's Glory   Father   Fly In The Ointment   Fucking Ada   Funky Disco (Pops)   Game On   Geraldine   Girls (Watching)   Happy Hippy   Have A Word   Heavy Living   Hey, Hey, Take Me Away   Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick   Honeysuckle Highway   Huffety Puff   I Believe   I Could Lie   I Made Mary Cry   I Want To Be Straight   I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra   If I Was With A Woman   Inbetweenies   It Ain't Cool   Itinerant Child   London Talking   Lonely (Town)   Looking For Harry   Love Is All   Lullaby For Francies   Manic Depression (Jimi)   Mash It Up Harry   Mischief   My Old Man   No Such Thing As Love   O'Donegal   Oh, Mr. Peanut   One Love   Pam's Moods   Pardon   Peter The Painter   Plaistow Patricia   Poo-Poo In The Prawn   Poor Joey   Profoundly In Love With Pandora   Quick Quick Slow   Quiet   Razzle In My Pocket   Really Glad You Came   Reasons To Be Cheerful   Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3   Red (Letter)   Rough Kids   Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n Roll   Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll   Sink My Boats   Spasticus (Autisticus)   Superman's Big Sister   Superman's Big Sister   Sweet Gene Vincent   Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup (You're Sitti...   Thank You Mum   That's Enough Of That   That's Not All   The (Body Song)   The Badger And The Rabbit   The Call Up   The Mumble Rumble And The Cocktail Rock   The Passing Show   The Roadette Song   The Sky's The Limit   There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards   This Is What We Find   Trust (Is A Must)   Twenty Tiny Fingers Sore Throat Mix   Two Old Dogs Without A Name   Uncoolohol   Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy   Upminster Kid   Very Personal   Wait (For Me)   Waiting For Your Taxi   Wake Up And Make Love With Me   You'll See Glimpses   You're More Than Fair   You'll See Glimpses   You're More Than Fair   You're My Baby   You're My Inspiration   You're The Why   Your Horoscope

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