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25 Years Lyrics
I went to school and I studied
And I got my G.C.E.
My City and Guilds and my Sky Diary
But it didn't do me no good
They didn't like my looks
I burnt my books
Twenty five years doesn't matter anymore
I stand around the streets
I lie around the floor
looking at the sky
I watch the world go by
I started out one day
And I worked in a factory
My mind went blank
I needed a battery
Didn't do me no good
I got the sack
My work was slack
Twenty five years, twenty five years, twenty five years?
'Cause twenty five years doesn't matter anymore
I stand around the streets
And lie around the floor
Looking at the sky
I watch the world go by
They say there's life up there in the galaxy
The world's in collision
There's people with an allergy
Twenty five years of social reform
Ain't gonna make me change or make me conform
Twenty five years, twenty five years, twenty five years
Twenty five years of social research and
Twenty five years, twenty five years, twenty five years?
And I got my G.C.E.
My City and Guilds and my Sky Diary
But it didn't do me no good
They didn't like my looks
I burnt my books
Twenty five years doesn't matter anymore
I stand around the streets
I lie around the floor
looking at the sky
I watch the world go by
And I worked in a factory
My mind went blank
I needed a battery
Didn't do me no good
I got the sack
My work was slack
'Cause twenty five years doesn't matter anymore
I stand around the streets
And lie around the floor
Looking at the sky
I watch the world go by
They say there's life up there in the galaxy
The world's in collision
There's people with an allergy
Twenty five years of social reform
Ain't gonna make me change or make me conform
Twenty five years, twenty five years, twenty five years
Twenty five years of social research and
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No comments? Let me be the first then. This was one of the better eras of the Hawk family of bands and I was lucky enough to get to see them in action in 78 at no less a venue than Bletchley Leisure Centre. It was packed of course... I consider this one of my fave gigs ever being able to see Mr Calvert cavorting for our pleasure all the way through the album to the inevitable Silver Machine encore with spinning silver bicycle wheels (I think, one of Bob's little jokes there). Perhaps to non-UK readers/listeners some bits of lyric are unfamiliar. GCEs are what you did at 16 before leaving to work... when you got there you might be lucky to get a day off a week to attend your local college to study for a professional qualification, "City and Guilds". I don't know if this is still available but I did ONC and HNC but that is another story. But quite what a "Sky Diary" is I have no clue... great song though.