I've got my clipboard, text books
Lead me to the station, yeah
I'm off to the civil war
I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots
I'm running in the rain
Gonna run 'til my feet are raw

Slip kid, slip kid, second generation
I'm a soldier at thirteen
Slip kid, slip kid, realization
There's no easy way to be free
No easy way to be free
It's a hard, hard world

I left my doctor's prescription
Bungalow behind me
I left the door ajar
I got my vacuum flask
Full of hot tea and sugar
Left the keys right in my car

Slip kid, slip kid, second generation
Only halfway up the tree
Slip kid, slip kid, I'm a relation
I'm a soldier at sixty-three
No easy way to be free

Slip kid, slip kid

Keep away old man
You won't fool me
You and your history won't rule me
You might've been a fighter
But admit you failed
I'm not affected by your blackmail
You won't blackmail me

Repeat verse 1

Slip kid, slip kid, slip out of trouble
Slip over here and set me free
Slip kid, slip kid, second generation
You're like me
No easy way to be free
No easy way to be free.

I see myself on TV, I'm a faker,
A paper clown
It's clear to all my friends that I habitually lie
I just bring them down
I claim proneness to exaggeration
But the truth lies in my frustration
The children of the night they all pass me by
Got to dress myself in brandy, and sleep all high
But however much I booze--there ain't no way out!
THere ain't no way out
I don't care what you say boy, there ain't no way out!

I lose so many nights of sleep, worrying about my responsibilities
Are the problems that screw me up really down to him or me?
My ego will just confuse me
Someday it's gonna up and use me
Fish me out another tailor-made compliment
Tell me 'bout some destiny I can't prevent
And however much I squirm--there ain't no way out!
There ain't no way out
I don't care what you say boy, there ain't no way out!

Won't somebody tell me how to get out of this place!

And the night comes down like a cell door closing
Suddenly I realize that I'm right now--I'm on the scene
While sitting here all alone with a bottle and my head a' floating
Far away from the phone and the conscience, goin' on with me
And on with me
But I don't care what you say--there ain't no way out!
There ain't no way out

Now the walls are all clawed and scratched, like by some soul in sin
In the morning I'll hung-overly detach myself
I'll take no blame
I just can't face my falure
I'm nothin' but a well-fucked sailor
You at home can easily decide what's right
By glancing very briefly at the songs I write
But it don't help it that you know--there still ain't no way out!
Won't somebody tell me!
I don't care what you say boy, there ain't no way out!
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
Give me the key, now
Give me the key, now
Give me the key, now
Gimme the key
Oh, there ain't no way outta here!
Tell me
Tell me
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out
There ain't no way out...

Mama's got a sqeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets no rest
Because she's playing all night
And the music's alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

Well, the kids don't eat
And the dog can't sleep
There's no escape from the music
In the whole damn street
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

She goes in and out
And in and out
And in and out
And in and out
She's playing all night
And the music's alright
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

She goes "Squeeze me,
Come on and squeeze me,
Come on and tease me like you do,
I'm so in love with you"
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night

Chorus