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All we ever wanted
Was everything
All we ever got
Was cold
Get up, eat jelly
Sandwich bars and barbed wire
And squash every week into a day
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
The sound of the drum
Is calling
The sound of the drum
Has called
Flash of youth shoot out of darkness
Factory town
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Was everything
All we ever got
Was cold
Get up, eat jelly
Sandwich bars and barbed wire
And squash every week into a day
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
The sound of the drum
Is calling
The sound of the drum
Has called
Flash of youth shoot out of darkness
Factory town
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Lyrics submitted by alda, edited by bleekerface
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Lyrics as written by David Jay Daniel Gaston Ash
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I always thought the second line was "all we ever got was Gold". It made me think the song was about human greed. No matter how much you have "gold, jelly for breakfast, being the cream" of the crop socially, you still want more "everything". And the rest of us Factorytown have-nots eating sandwhich bars, barbed wire, and squash over and over desire to be that haves. Greed on all levels. No matter what you are given, you always want more.