Domtavlor - bricklayer Lyrics

You're a bricklayer
Thought you'd be a ball player
Your mates thought you took a big fall there
So you really took the piss out the law til the court said
One morning warning all before you saw pen
Maybe join the army for a tour I guess
Make your dad proud
New people, new beers, you're abroad now
You really look just like them, talked like them
So you didn't mind when they said no more hair
Did the time in the gym like you were born there
But weird how no-one really mentioned there's a war there
What's the cause? You didn't care
You only know the warm air gave you sore head
They gave you more meds
Brought the ketchup over
More armour but more dents in the jeep, more fags than sleep
Poor signal when you call west
Four nil on the scoresheet
All bets off
You put your neck on the line for the boss
Got the best job of the lot
Had a nap whilst you kept watch
Slept through it
Next thing you know you're on the plane home
Wait oh
They really take no f*cking prisoners
They killed your mates, you were kipping
Union jack draped over wood like the village fete
Now you miss them
Didn't matter what you tried to say to the mums and the dads
Bit sadder when you saw your own
Little banner say 'welcome home
Pitter-patter on the road
Fear and anger in your nut
You should break, you should crash your fiesta into a wall
You could jump down the stairs crack your head on the fall
You could go to the pub for a couple more
You're 25, you amount to f*ck all
You should break, you should crash straight into a wall
You could jump down the stairs crack your head on the fall
You could go to the pub for a couple more
You're a bricklayer
You thought you'd be a ball player
Now you're stood with the pallbearers
You're a bricklayer
You thought you'd be a ball player
Now you're stood with the pallbearers