LYRIC FOR SALE

By Marie Keightley Mellor

THE SECOND LINE
Verse 1
I tune in my radio, I hear doom and gloom
I glance at the TV, I’ve gotta leave the room
War, war, and more wars, another senseless bloody war
Don’t turn a blind eye it could come knocking at your door
What about the innocents who don’t have a choice?
What about the children who don’t have a voice?

Pre chorus
So I’m leaving today, I’ve made up my mind, I feel it’s time
This world is breaking my heart, I wanna start me a second line

Chorus
Don’t come looking for me unless you wanna be in the second line
Tell everybody you know and anybody you don’t, now is he time
If you look and you find me, fall in behind and be
In the second line with me.

Verse 2
Step up beside me and hold my hand
We’ll leave the world behind and follow the band
We’ll follow that saxophone, we’ll follow them trumps
We’ll step to the boom boom boom of the big bass drum
What about the innocents, who have peace here today?
What about the children, who are free here to play?

Pre chorus
So I’m leaving today, I’ve made up my mind, I feel it’s time
This world’s more cruel than kind, I’m gonna find me a second line

Chorus
Don’t come looking for me unless you wanna be in the second line
Tell everybody you know and anybody you don’t, now is the time
If you look and you find me, fall in behind and be
In the second line with me

Bridge
Who said all is fair in love and war? They were lying
Some have all that jazz and the razzamataz, some are dying
Some boast of ‘bumper crops this year’, some are starving
Is where we’re born at the toss of a coin?
Why can’t the world join a second line?

Chorus
Don’t come looking for me unless you wanna be in the second line
Tell everybody you know and anybody you don’t, now is the time
If you look and you find me fall in behind and be
In the second line with me

Coda
You’ll find me in the second line
Now is the time
To join a second line