One Better Day lyrics

Artist  : Madness 
Song : One Better Day
 
(McPherson/Bedford)
    Transcribed by ir.drs. Ben Jos Walbeehm
(Walbeehm@fsw.ruu.nl)
                      with Simon Roberts
(roberts@airtime.co.uk)
    Date of last revision: March 04, 1996.
Arlington house, address: no fixed abode
An old man in a three-piece suit sits in the road
He stares across the water, he sees right through
the lock
But on and up like outstretched hands
His mumbled words, his fumbled words, mock
Further down, a photo booth, a million plastic
bags
And an old woman filling out a million baggage
tags
But when she gets thrown out, three bags at a
time
She spies the old chap in the road to share her
bags with
She has bags of time
Surrounded by his past, on a short white line
He sits while cars pass either side, takes his
time
Trying to remember one better day
A while ago when people stopped to hear him say
Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your
shoes
Now she has walked enough through rainy town
She rests her bag against his and sits down
She's trying to remember one better day
A while ago when people stopped to hear her say
Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your
shoes
Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your
shoes
The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left
to lose
Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine
Beating down in time with the rhythm of your
shoes
The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left
to lose