One Way

One Way - The Levellers

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

My father when I was younger

Took me up on to the hill

That looks down on the city smog

And above the factory spill

He said now this is where I come

When I wanted to be free

But he never was in his lifetime

These words stuck with me hey

And so I ran from all of this

And I climbed that highest hill

I looked down on to my life

Above the factory spill

I looked down onto my life

As the family disgrace

Then all my friends on the starting line

Their wages off to chase

Yes and all my friends and all their jobs

All the bloody waste

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

Well well when I grew up

Learned to love and laugh

Circled A's on the underpass

The noise we thought would never stop

Died a death when the punks grew up

And we choked on all our dreams

We whispered all our fears

We running through the heartless concrete streets

Chasing our ideas run

And all the problems of the world

Won't be solved by this guitar

And they won't stop coming either

By the life I've had so far

And the bright lights of my home town

Won't be getting any dimmer

Though their calling has receded

Like some old distant singer

And they don't look so appealing

To the eyes of this poor sinner

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

That's your own