UFO (New Single by me, George Doran)

Jane said that she loved me once
but she was taken off in a UFO
and I can't tell you where
all my high school friends have gone
most have caught fatal illnesses
and some work in cheap tattoo parlours
in the park some are selling
drugs and guns to OAPs

down pall mall they hold their guts
and pray that they get swept away
by electric street sweepers
operated by council officers
who used to be good friends with me
but we have long since gone separate ways
I read books and they read
condom packets for expiration dates

but we all said we'd escape some day

but life is never kind
to the likes of you and me, we'll drink our health away
and hope to win euro millions
or fall in love with one another
and stay happily married for
the longest time that we can manage
then drift apart and die alone
and be buried with our maiden names

or fall in love again with an old school friend
that we've not seen for years
and take them out and ask them if
they ever wrote the books they said they would
and disappoint each other
with the abject failure of our lives
and laugh about the songs we wrote
when we were only seventeen

when we all thought we'd escape some day

but suburbia is calling you
so get a job in a sandwich shop
you're not too old to earn minimum wage
you're not too young to be middle aged
fall off the face of all the hopes and dreams
that didn't come close to coming true
and if I were you
I wouldn't think too hard about the past

and sad songs bring you down
but pop songs perk you up and make you smile
so keep the radio on at work
and never look inside of you
'cause hope can crush you too you know
let go of hope and slide away
and time is no great healer
it just takes you further and further away

from when you thought you'd escape some day

Disclaimer:
All the people and events described in this song are fictional, Jane is named after a character in a book and though some of the song may seem reminiscent of things that have happened in my life it is not.

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