One Way Songtext
von 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 onto the hill
To look down on the city smoke
And above the factories spill
He said, "Now this is where I come
When I want to be free."
But it never was in his lifetime
That these words stopped to be, hey


And so I ran from all of this
I climbed up high as hell
I looked down onto my life
Above the factories spill
I looked down into my life
As a family disgrace
And all my friends are starting life
Their wages are to chase
Yes, and all my friends and all their jobs
And 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, that′s your own, that's your own

Well, well, well I grew up, learned to love and laugh
Slept for days on the underpass
The noise we thought would never stop
Died a death as a punk grew up
We choked on all our dreams
We wrestled with our fears
We run to the heart of 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 hometown
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, that's your own, that′s your own
There's only one way of life
And that′s your own, that's your own, that′s your own
There's only one way of life
And that's your own, that′s your own, that′s your own
That's your own