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PERFORMING ARTISTS
UB40
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ali Campbell
Composer
Brian Travers
Composer
Norman Hassan
Composer
Jim Brown
Composer
Robin Campbell
Composer
Earl Falconer
Composer
Terence Wilson
Composer
Michael Virtue
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
UB40
Producer
Paul Thomas
Engineer
Rafe McKenna
Assistant Recording Engineer
Howard Gray
Engineer
Ray "Pablo" Falconer
Producer
Kevin Maloney
Engineer
Lyrics
A misfit who is old before his time
Poverty has turned him to crime
Boredom gives him too much time to think
He pours another drink.
A burning, bitter taste of irony
A prisoner in the land of the free.
He wonders why his landscape looks so strange
Burger bars are home on the range
An empty bottle falling from his hand
He does'nt understand.
A burning, bitter taste of irony
A prisoner in the land of the free.
A cork unlocks the door to other lands
Of battles won and destinies in hand
A half-remembered state of liquid dreams
Where things aren't what they seem.
A burning, bitter taste of irony
A prisoner in the land of the free.
A naked savage dressed in shirt and jeans
A burning, bitter taste of irony
A prisoner in the land of the free.
A burning, bitter taste of irony
A prisoner in the land of the free.
Writer(s): Terrence Oswald Wilson, Brian Travers, Jim Brown, Norman Hassan, Ali Campbell, Earl Falconer, Michael Virtue, Robin Campbell
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