The Changingman

Album: Stanley Road (1995)
Charted: 7
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  • Is happiness real?
    Or am I so jaded
    I can't see or feel, like a man been tainted
    Numbed by the effect, aware of the muse
    Too in touch with myself, I light the fuse

    [Chorus]
    I'm the changing man, built on shifting sands
    I'm the changing man, waiting for the bang,
    As I light a bitter fuse

    Time is on loan, only ours to borrow
    What I can't be today, I can be tomorrow

    And the more I see, the more I know
    The more I know, the less I understand.

    [Chorus]

    It's a bigger part,
    When our instincts act
    A shot in the dark,
    A movement in black

    And the more I see, the more I know
    The more I know, the less I understand.

    [Chorus] Writer/s: BRENDAN LYNCH, PAUL JOHN WELLER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Andy Dunn67 from NottinghamshireHis comments on getting too settled make alot of sense, if he become too comfortable, then somebody like Paul 'having everything perfect' would run out of inspiration for song writing, imagine if that had happened before 1980, Going underground could've had lyrics like
    "Some people might say my life is really good
    Its why I might move into a treehouse in some wildwood
    Folks can like Lionel Richie & his song Hello
    As I shout 'rock & roll is king' to some band called ELO
    Somethings happening here today
    I had a dust up in Leeds
    And then the court dropped charges for affray
    And I'm so well clothed and also well fed
    You won't see me on any church roof stealing the lead
    And that Simon Cowell on X Factor
    On a top peoples health farm driving a tractor
    But I'm so cool and need no fridge
    I've got my solid gold gate with its own draw bridge
    But I cannot help being from the same place as Status Quo
    I'm going underground
    Going underground
    Not like a badger, coal miner or mole
    Going Ubderground
    Going underground
    I mean undermine & subvert maybe become a troll
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