In nineteen hundred and eighty six
Not much for a chippie but swinging a pick
And you can’t live on love, and on love alone
So you sail on the ocean, away cross the foam
To where you’re a Paddy, and where you're a Mick
Not much use at all but stacking a brick
And your mate’s a spade and he carried a hod
Two work horses heavily shod
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Oh I’m missing you
I’d give all for the price of a flight
and oh I’m missing you under Piccadilly’s neon
And who did you murder, and are you a spy?
I’m just fond of a drink, helps me laugh, helps me cry
And I took to the Port for a permanent high
Now I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die
Now the summer is fine, but the winter's a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross bridge
And I'll never go home, it's because of the shame
Of a misfits reflection in a shop window pane
So all you young people take an advice
Before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice
'Cause you can't live without love, without love alone
Here's the proof around the West End, in the nobody zone
[Chorus] (3x)