Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

What a Waste

I could be the driver in an articulated lorry
I could be a poet, I wouldn't need to worry
I could be the teacher in a classroom full of scholars
I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs
What a waste! What a waste!
What a waste! What a waste!
Because I tried to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste! But the world don't mind
I could be a lawyer with stratagems and muses
I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises
I could be a writer with a growing reputation
I could be the ticket-man at Fulham Broadway station
What a waste! What a waste!
What a waste! What a waste!
Because I tried to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste! But the world don't mind
I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution
I could be an inmate in a long-term institution
I could lead to wide extremes, I could do or die
I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch them gullify
What a waste! What a waste!
What a waste! What a waste!
Because I tried to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste! But the world don't mind
Chose to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste! But the world don't mind
What a waste! What a waste! But the world don't mind
Chose to play the fool in a six-piece band
First-night nerves every one-night stand
I should be glad to be so inclined
What a waste! What a waste! But the world don't mind



Credits
Writer(s): Ian Robins Dury, Roderick Martin Melvin
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
  2. I Want To Be Straight
  3. There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
  4. What a Waste
  5. Common as Muck
  6. Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3
  7. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
  8. Sueperman's Big Sister
  9. Razzle In My Pocket
  10. You're More Than Fair

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Altri album

  1. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Live)
  2. Greatest
  3. Live At Rockpalast (WDR Studio L, Cologne, 21.02.1978)
  4. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (The Essential Collection)
  5. I Want to Be Straight
  6. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll - The Essential Collection
  7. Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 (EP)
  8. Laughter
  9. Ten More Turnips from the Tip
  10. Ten More Turnips from the Tip

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