100 Years Of Solitude Lyrics - Singles - Levellers

All around you slow decay 

Want to feel the sun of a new day 

Forget all the chances lost 

Shedding innocence like falling dust 

All the things you learned too young 

The songs you knew but never sung 

Waited a long time and wasted more 

Forgotten what you waited for 

Excuse me ma'am for being so rude 

Feels like 100 years of solitude 

My mind is numb but my mouth's okay 

And you can listen or walk away 

No solutions built to last 

Just petty scores to settle fast 

The N.M.E. was nothing to you 

And the maker, well the maker of who 

This walkman generation 

In search of sweet sedation 

While forests choke under a lever sky 

And the Exxon birds that will never fly 

We tried, we cried, we fell, we lied 

This life's like a white knuckled ride 

Crack babies born too young 

And L.A. kids who dance to the gun 

So forget this so called dirt of mine 

It's just the dust and diesel of passing time 

It's all around you - a tragedy, look 

So forget the cover and read the book