Mid-Life Crisis Songs #30: I Coulda Been A Contender

Now that she's older

As the embers of romance

Fade to mortgages and leccy bills

Being comfortable and that

Nobody told her

That she'd ever reach the stage

Where her husband bored her

Or she lied about her age

The folly of youth is that you think you have all the time in the world to make your dreams a reality. 

He's compromising

At least he's got a job for life

Get born, get schooled

Get job, get car

Pay tax and find a wife

And on that note

The end can't come too soon

If you're not living on the edge

You take up too much room

Then one day you wake up and it's too late. And you realise how much time you wasted in your 20s...

At school, he used to dream about being Bruce Lee

But the need for chops

In the Manor Top

Ain't all that great, you see

And so he gave up

On his black belt and first dan

As near as he got to China

Was a week in Camber Sands

The ironic thing about the most famous song by Reverend & The Makers is that it's all about almost making it... just as they almost did. Heavyweight Champion of the World was a Top Ten hit in 2007, but it was their only one. Still, they carry on regardless. I need to go check out a few of their most recent releases because Jon McClure is a great songwriter. I hope he's been successful enough that he's never had to take a day job... and be like everybody else...

It's boring, it's boring

It might put you to sleep

It's the same old routine

Repeating week after week

You work harder, work harder

You're told that you must

And you must earn a living

And you must earn a crust

And be like everybody else

Be like everybody else

Be like everybody else

Just be like everybody else