I need something in my life to straighten me out
Let's rent this shed, we'll do vocals in the bog
Call toast PR tell 'em we've opened up shop

Campaign meetings at Warner, no !@%!e and not drunk
3 years to make this work, or look a joke and be broke
Blag their lawyers like the con with a dog

And there'll be no more straight scores to drop and keep dropping
Settle my gross addictions with my net and come
Tell my mum over tea that my whole life's $#&@ing up

We've got two fifty grand in the budget to go
Subtract five for club promo
Lose five for a good video and fifteen for a dud video, $#&@ that


It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery


Mayhem textes me about the press and TV
See if I've taken any Es

So I can get some sleep
Nap on the settee, the laptop next to me
Wince for my family at the skinner scandal of the week

TV pluggers, product managers straight up
Club promo needs to step up, help it work
Stick to our guns, don't crack to demands

Tell my mum in the car, that the car might have to go back
Two hundred and twenty five grand
Twenty six grand for a showcase

And five more on tour support and support story

It's the hardest way to make an easy living

The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery

We'll never get bankrupt if we never have a go

This is no ordinary able, I need to flash up my flow
Go into Morris stead as well as saville row
I want a pin-stripe suit that no man owns

Cash in the Kano beat for the silver shadow
Send it to warrior for the flash and the glow
The safest way to double your money is to fold it in your pocket

Tell my mum during breakfast that I got no sleep
Eight grand paid in September, April, may and December
If this keeps going so well, this is going to be the end of us


It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery


In spread betting it's easy to draw a small fortune start
With a big fortune and lose into a small fortune

Haven't got a clue, we blindly charge on
Death threats from a boy of the girl I sarged on
She said she didn't have a bloke, another lesson marked down

Verbal agreements aren't worth the paper they're marked on
Get scans of reviews, we beg to chart up
Tell my mum over tea, the press have started up

We've spent a fortune
'Cause with ghost buying it's the end for tune
We need to sell some records soon


It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery


It's the hardest way to make an easy living
The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery