Glory Days Lyrics

Lyric discussion by RLHydra 

Cover art for Glory Days lyrics by Pulp

The song is about someone who when they were younger dreamt of a bright future "The Space Race", "Golden Age", "Glory Days"

They seem an below average person "Oh, my face is unappealing and my thoughts are unoriginal" who has tried things to improve "Substances" "I Ching" but they havent worked, are they lazy looking for short cuts?

When he was young he wanted to be an astronaut but ended up being a toilet cleaner.

A dreamer who makes excuses "And I could be a genius if I just put my mind to it And I could do anything if only I could get round to it"

Has the same tune as "Cocaine Socialism" which wrote a few years earlier after Tony Blair became Prime Minister

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