Laughing Boy

Time ain't gonna wait

For even you, my friend

I can't stay late

I'm looking at the end

Ace high, hypnotised

And sucked into that scene

Taking on a guise, it wasn't really me

Hard years later

And we're still hanging on

For the St. Jackpot score

That's never gonna come

Not running away now

Been running all day

But it's falling apart now

It's been coming all day

Oh, I have been your laughing boy

I took it on the chin

Accepted gracefully

And all the heat that you deploy

(Your laughing boy)

The more I take

(Your laughing boy)

The more I break

Cooking fires on the beach

Smoke finger in the sky

You know that's where I should be

My baby by my side

Good times from the start

Remember (Yeah), but now

The palace gang's back to old things

That's my cue, I'm gettin' out in style

For I have been your laughing boy

(Your laughing boy)

I took it on the chin

(Your laughing boy)

Accepted gracefully

And all the heat that you deploy

(Your laughing boy)

The more I take

(Your laughing boy)

The more I break

Not running away now

Been running all day

But it's falling apart now

It's been coming all day

Oh, I have been your laughing boy

(Your laughing boy)

I took it on the chin

(Your laughing boy)

Accepted gracefully

And all the heat that you deploy

(Your laughing boy)

The more I take

(Your laughing boy)

The more I break

For I have been your loving boy

(Your laughing boy)

I took it on the chin

(Your laughing boy)

Accepted gracefully

Take all the heat you can deploy

(Your laughing boy)

The more I take

(Your laughing boy)

The more I break