1. PROLOGUE

Three friends are made, three lives are laughs and tears
Through years of school and play they share
As time stands still the days change into years
And future comes without a care

But fate and skill and chances play their part
The wind of change leaves no good-bye
Three boys are men their ways have drawn apart
They tell their tales to justify


2. SCHOOLDAYS

The bell rings
And all things
Are calling
The days past
The play's cast
Remember
September
When we were
Together
Together
Together

Schooldays the happy days when we were going nowhere
Schooltime the happy time when we were feeling no care

Schooldays when three said that we'd better be friends forever
How long is ever isn't it strange
Schooldays together why do they change

Did kites fly
And I spy
And you cry
To run fast
Or come last
You know how
We made vows
They're gone now
We made friends
We broke friends
No more friends

Schooldays the happy days when we were going nowhere
Schooltime the happy time when we were feeling no care

How long is ever isn't it strange
Schooldays together why do they change

Remember,
Remember when we
Together
Went to the sea
Was it real or did we dream. The days of children gone.
Seagull's scream and pink ice cream and the deep blue sky
And the waves seem high and golden sand and the town brass band plays on

Wait for me
Wait for us always
Wait for me
Wait for us to come
Homework's dull. It's worth the pain to go out when I want Mister Watson wants to see you in the master's room. It's about the work you should have done and I think you must go now


3. WORKING ALL DAY

Working all day, I'm digging up the roads, just working all day
Dig for my pay and spend it where I like. I've nothing to say
Drown in my sweat but money buys escape. I've got no regrets
Working all day
Working all day

When I was young I used to have illusions. Dreams ain't enough
Papa was rough. He didn't care for learning. Hell life is tough
Easy to say that everybody's equal then look around and see it ain't true
Working all day

I eat the dust. The boss gets all the money. Life ain't just
I'm still the same as all the other people. Who can I trust
Working all day and never getting nowhere, what can I say working all day
Working all day


4. PEEL THE PAINT

Free from the start
Left to depart
Finding the pleasure and the pain in his art
Lost in the hush
No need to rush
Time waits for him, him who creates with the brush
Colour the brush

High in the air
His dreams are there
Searching for answers he will look everywhere
Thinks he has won
A place in the sun
Free from the worries and the ways of everyone
Colour the brush

Peel the paint
Look underneath
You'll see the same, the same old savage beast
Strip the coats
The coats of time
And find mad eyes and see those sharpened teeth

Nothing's been learned
No nothing at all
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall

Carnal grave
Crawling smooth
Open flesh and you must let him in
Glass reflects
What you are
It shows the face, the evil face of sin

Nothing's been learned
No nothing at all
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall


5. MISTER CLASS AND QUALITY ?

Look around my rooms and see the prizes I have showing
Working hard to build my life and plan the way I'm going
House and car and pretty wife, they've all been won by knowing
All been won by knowing
All been won by knowing

Paperwork, white collared shirts, where would we be without them
Man of class and quality, I never shout about them
Choose my friends for my own ends, you can't succeed without them
Can't succeed without them
Can't succeed without them

Middleman sees straight ahead and never crosses borders
Never understood the artist or the lazy workers
The world needs steady men like me to give and take the orders
Give and take the orders
Give and take the orders


6. THREE FRIENDS

Once three friends
Sweet in sadness
Now part of their past

In the end
Full of gladness
Went from class to class