Yesterday's Song

If a Scotsman's home's his castle

Then this old boat is mine

Firin' arrows at the neighbours

Shouting curses at the cops

Dusty wasteland as my garden

Broken bottles as my crops

Ain't nothing gonna touch us here

Our only enemy is time

Oooh oooh ooh ooh ooooh ooh

Ooooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooh

A march on through the forest

To poach some unclaimed land

You'll scale every highest mountain

And be back to tell the tail

In a house of suit stained sandstone

Lies a night you'll not forget

Roasting tatties on the fire

Whilst whistling in the wind

And we know by now

The moment's lost

It's not today

And we know by now

This is yesterday's song

We'll just have to carry on

Ain't if funny how it all turns out

When you know yourself that it's not enough

You look back at days when nothing matters

And you feel like the time's just slippin' away

Nothing tomorrow will ever be complete

'Cos the story's forgotten and days are shorter

So you know that the only way to compete

Is to be the man only that you've always wanted to be

Ooooh

Ooooh

Old rickety wooden bridges

And damaged sewage pipes

On a bitterly freezing morning

With not a hint of sun insight

We'll take on ropes and roofs and railway tracks

We'll fix timber to the trees

We'll find badgers heads and jellyfish

That no-one even else will see

And we know by now

The moment's lost

It's not today

And we know by now

This is yesterday's song

We'll just have to carry on

Oooh oooh ooh ooh ooooh ooh

Ooooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooh