Nobel Bob Blues

Well you've got one hand on the money babe

But your other is holding the cradle it rocks (twice)

Yes you've been counting out your dollar bills

But you can't spend them til the baby walks 

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You been burning your life at both ends babe

Don't want to see the day your little baby talks (twice)

Coz every line that little baby says

Puts food on your enemies knives and forks.

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There's been days when you wanted to and
there's been days when you thought you did your best (twice)

But you never got shown the light

And now you got a pain in your chest

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You been working so hard now boy

Like a woman who's lost her mind (twice)

Now you survey your empires of sand

Each and every grain - you know how to find 

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Now your baby she's all grown up

She swims with the tide that's comin in (twice)

Gonna wash away all your deserts and -

While you count the cost, she starts again.
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So you're clean outta grains boy
Your tryin' to get back the use of your head (twice)

But down there all the sewer babies
Are wishin' they was somebody else instead....