A Grim Affair

[Verse 1]
Oh, in this beaten-up bar of lonely drinkers and clowns
All time goes by like in a cancelled film
In some lost town
All scenes cut and forgot, all sunny shutters pulled down
In dusty haze, like in a smokey room
In the Horse and Crown

Well the comedian's all drunk, the singer's lost her fur coat
She can't go on, and the barman says
The jukebox doesn't work
Figures crouch behind beers and pretend to be gnomes
No homes to go to, they seem to merge in
With the tables and chairs

[Chorus 1]
Cancеlled out jar, broken-down bar
Beatеn up palm trees
Dancing girls snore, bags on the floor
Half-eaten meat pies
Back on the road...
Back on the road...
Back on the road again

[Bridge]
Got to get a job drinkin' all night
Didn't seem wrong but it didn't feel right
Oh sorry, no lorry
Got no date 'cause you gotta work late, uh-uh-uh
Took five and I wound up here
Madame Tussaud's and half-warm beer
Ol' Gummy Jones been there
Since the Crimean war

Oh that beautiful, oh that wonderful
Oh that marvelous feeling
Yeah that wonderful, oh that beautiful
Yeah that marvelous feelin'
Back on the road again

[Guitar Solo]

Back on the road...
Back on the road...
Back on the road again

[Verse 2]
Oh ham and cheese is all off, the rolls could be in museums
The tele's broke, there's only cricket
On the box anyway
Slow motion tapes of croquet can sometimes be OK
But just today I gotta get a hole
From which to go away

[Chorus 2]
Cancelled out jar, broken-down bar
Beaten up palm trees
Dancing girls snore, bags on the floor
Half-eaten meat pies
Back on the road, back on the road
Back on the road again