Title track of "Goodbye Ruth" EP. After playing it on radio one, John Peel said: "I find myself whistling it as I walk down the corridor. I think I might play that again - in fact I will play that again" and he did.
When you're young and
your life stretches out before you,
so much temptation,
so many doors seem open for you.
Inviting thresholds,
when you don't know what lies deep in the room,
but clock on anyway
for factory-floor financial liberty.
And life is good now,
the daylight, bright, shines all around you,
with youth and beauty,
overcome the things you want to,
the World's a fine place,
security taken for granted,
and why should you fear
the future when your future is so bright.
But when the night falls,
the facts will dawn the boom is over,
behind the closed doors,
the scapegoat-shortlist pondered over,
they repay your loyalty
with empty words and fickle gestures,
and with truth that's skin deep
they smile and put you out to pasture.
It's so easy
to put your trust in someone you love.
And it's so easy
to put your faith in wages day,
but when the time comes,
you'll find betrayal comes before the truth.
And when the bell chimes,
you leave the door - you can't go back there.
So Goodbye Ruth I never knew
and never will,
they took your life,
they put you down,
they turned you round,
they threw you out,
they never gave you anything,
except the scars in your mind.
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