ghosts of reality

they’ll teach you the rules as soon as you live
and they’ll ask you to give more than you can give
So you will be what they want and that’s how you’ll live
A working class hero who no one will see

They will ask you to go and leave all behind
Cause those rules say you should and those rules are always right
They will promise you fortune which you’ll never find
A working class hero who no one will see

See, goodbyes are for ever because no one meets again
personalities change, boys become man
till you can’t go further and death seems so certain
A working class hero who no one will see

They’ll be living your good times and leave you the bad
While your dreaming of treasures you will never get
Please know they won’t see the things that are making you sad
A working class hero who no one will see

Before every battle you will say good-bye
You might not return, there’s a chance you will die
And no one will notice that there’s where you lie
A working class hero who no one will see
You won’t be a hero, just a ghost of reality




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