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The Big House

from The Saccharine Underground by Peter Cat

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lyrics

Girl living inside a tent in the front room
Sleeping next to a lawnmower
And in what passes for the bathroom
There's a dog-eared Jonathan Safran Foer
In the big house, the wallpaper peels
To reveal what's beneath
It isn't pretty, no, but it's all we've got

In the big house
There's a place you can be free
In the big house
For only thirty pounds per week, well come on

Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
At the big house tonight

He is lovely and he comfortably exudes
A dark fantastic passion
But he's banging on incessantly about
Trends in skater fashion
In the big house, the ceiling sags low
Distended with mould
It isn't pretty, no, but this is our lot

In the big house
There's a place you can be free
In the big house
For only thirty pounds per week
Well, in the big house
In the big house I found love
With asbestos in my lungs
Life's a ladder
Here's the bottom rung

We couldn't be expected, reasonably
To be in the market for property
It's so far out of reach for you and for me
And it always will be
So just dance with me

In the big house I found love
With asbestos in my lungs
Life's a ladder
Here's the bottom rung

Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?
Who will pay your taxi fare?

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from The Saccharine Underground, released November 6, 2020
© Peter Cat 2020

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