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Cop on the Edge

from Acting Thick for Money by The Wind-up Birds

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First released on the EP 'Songs Speeches Dancing', December 2005

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And he’s banging the table like a cop on the edge
Shaking the plants off the window ledge
Making his point two or three times
Shaking with rage and fluffing his lines
He’s driving too fast
He’s a cop on the edge
Skidding through the boxes of fruit and veg
His head it is pounding and the veins in his neck
Throb like bass speakers in a discotheque
Throb like bass speakers in a discotheque

(They said it was a young man’s game) x 4
Business plans and sales graphs
Greasy food in greasy caffs
He strains to fit inside his suits
Or tie the laces on his boots
His face screams with shaving cuts
Acid fizzles in his guts
His car shakes from his rock CDs
Knocking back the anti-freeze

He shouts down the phone
Cop on the edge
Finding it hard to gain advantage
Clients don’t listen like they used to do
When he sticks to the facts
It still sounds untrue
He’s using his fists like a cop on the edge
Ready to hand in his gun and his badge
He knows that the writing is on the wall
He should cash in his shares and get away from it all
Cash in his shares and get away from it all

(They said it was a young man’s game) x 4
Business plans and sales graphs
Greasy food in greasy caffs
He strains to fit inside his suits
Or tie the laces on his boots
His face screams with shaving cuts
Acid fizzles in his guts
His car shakes from his rock CDs
Knocking back the anti-freeze

FREEZE

(They said it was a young man’s game) x 4
Business plans
Sales graphs
Greasy food
Greasy caffs
Can’t fit in suit
Tie lace on boot
Face scream
Shave cut
Acid fizz in gut
Car shake
Queen CD
Knock back anti-freeze
FREEZE

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from Acting Thick for Money, released April 16, 2011
Paul Ackroyd - vocals
Ben Dawson - bass
Mat Forrest - guitar
Oli Jefferson - drums

Written by The Wind-Up Birds. Lyrics by Ackroyd

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