We Got Away With It

It was the opening night of a Rock 'n Roll travelling show

And they all were there, I mean the faces everybody knows

As the long limbed beauty left the long black limousine

The floor was wet as if the devil had prepared the scene

A high heel cracks and over she goes

We got away with it, they'll never catch us anyway

We had the best of it, kids today well they just don't know…

Hey you remember him, he was the face of '78

He drove a pink sports car straight through his manager's gate

Yeah the alarms went off, but just a little bit too late

As his tyres dug deeper through the lawns of the great estate

He drove into the pool and he couldn't escape, no

He got away with it, frogmen and cranes raised his legend high

They made a song of it, feed the fish to close – you die

You gotta go for it, someone will always tell you no

Fly in the face of it, showbiz folks always put on a show…

Living the high life – big time

Living outside the law

Living the bright light – high time – that's what living's for…

He was a rock god adonis in the big hotel

Where they partied all night, every night a different girl

Yeah the drugs came in, the money went out, nobody really cared

When the candle fell over and the flames lit his bleach blond hair

The dude slept through it as the fireball flared. yeah

We got away with it, sometimes I stop just to reminisce

Right in the thick of it, lips pursed waiting for stardom's kiss

We love the smell of it, the fame and fortune is our goal

Selfish and spoilt by it, days lived hard slowly taking their toll

We got away with it, I got some stories I can't tell

But hey there's a book in it, human suffering always sells

Always sells…