It`s A Long Long Way Lyrics - Promises & Lies - Ub40

It's a long long way from here 

Don't you worry yourself my dear 

It's a long long way from here 

Drought and famine in tv land 

Read the Sunday papers credit card ina your hand 

Sing your song of freedom just to ease your troubled mind 

And save your guilty pennies for the ones you leave behind 

The burden that you carry from the cradle to the grave 

Is like a badge of honour that you wear upon your sleeve 

You make your contribution and you shed a little tear 

And stage your celebration just to show how much you care 

You obscure your stolen power with hypocrisy and lies 

Your talk of understanding is a wafer thin disguise 

You glorify my image but deny me flesh and blood 

You radiate with goodness when you here me beg for food 

Those rivers of blood will flow again 

Someone changed the lyrics but the song remains the same 

You can build a wall of protocol to keep the wolves at bay 

But history dictates that someone has to pay 

It's a long long way from here 

Don't you worry yourself my dear 

It's a long long way from here