Great Dirty World [Lawrence Gowan]

Great Dirty World
Written by Lawrence Gowan
Lead Vocals by Lawrence Gowan

There you sit
Starring at the dead screen
And it's sad
Life ain't like your day dream
Every rat, gets an easy pigeon
Every snake, somehow works a way in

It's hard enough to sleep at night
Darlin', so you've been kicked inside
You're not the first one missing a pound of pride
You'll see worse than me in your day
Sooner or later everyone's heard to say - all in all
It's a great dirty world

Never safe
You're at the disadvantage
Then you start to hear the subtle message:
Play along - in time they're going to reach you
Play it down - eventually they beat you
It's hard enough to sleep at night

Everyone's cut by this knife
Don't expect nothing from life
But everything we've got to give it
Give it all
Give it all
Give it all

It's hard enough to sleep at night
Darlin', so you've been kicked inside
You're not the first one missing a pound of pride
You'll see worse than me in your day
Sooner or later everyone's heard to say - all in all
It's a great dirty world

Darlin', so you've been kicked inside
You're not the first one missing a pound of pride
You'll see worse than me in your day
Sooner or later everyone's heard to say - all in all
It's a great dirty world

Darlin', so you've been kicked inside
You're not the first one missing a pound of pride
You'll see worse than me in your day
Sooner or later everyone's heard to say - all in all
It's a great dirty world

Darlin', so you've been kicked inside
You're not the first one missing a pound of pride
You'll see worse than me in your day
Sooner or later everyone's heard to say - all in all
It's a great dirty world

Interpretation

We can be easy targets, and we all suffer sometimes in this great dirty world we live in.