One Way Lyrics - Chaos Theory - Levellers

There's only one way of life 

And that's your own 

My father when I was younger 

Took me up on to the hill 

That looked down on the city smog 

Above the factory spill 

He said this is where I come 

When I want to be free 

Well he never was in his lifetime 

But these words stuck with me 

I ran from all of this 

And I climbed that highest hill 

And looked down on my life 

Above the factory spill 

I looked down onto my life 

As the family disgrace 

Then to all my friends on the starting line 

Their wages off to chase 

and all my friends and all their jobs 

And all the bloody waste 

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I grew up, learned to love and laugh 

Circled A's on the underpass 

But the noise we thought would never stop 

Died a death as the punks grew up 

And we choked on our dreams 

We wrestled with our fears 

Running through the heartless concrete streets 

Chasing our ideas 

And the problems of the world 

Won't be solved by this guitar 

And they won't stop coming either 

By the life I've had so far 

And the bright lights of my home town 

Won't be getting any dimmer 

Though their calling has receded now 

Like some old distant singer 

And they don't seem so appealing 

To the eyes of this poor sinner 

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