Man Overboard - Ian Hunter

I shiver and shake, every morning I wake to the roar of the trains overhead

I got a newspaper floor, a towel for a door and there’s things crawling 'round

in my bed

The facilities are free at the ship hostelry for the football supporters appear

Am I’m losing my mind in the great left behind

I got to get myself out of here

Man Overboard, waves washing over me

Hard times, it’s a perilous sea

I’ll never learn

Anyone can tell you where you can find me

Drunk and disorderly

There’s rain on the ground and I can see upside down

Streetlamps and the repossessed homes

They say crime doesn’t pay, well take a walk down my way

And I’m stuck here with nowhere to go

Out on the street with all the other deadbeats, wasting away with the years

Their ships going down on the wrong side of town

And I gotta get my ass out of here

Man Overboard, waves washing over me

Sometimes it’s a treacherous sea

Walls spinning around the anger that’s hidden deep inside of me

Drunk and disorderly

Reality this, reality that

I been there once and I ain’t going back

They squeezed me 'till I came apart at the seams

Now I’d rather dream drunk and disorderly dreams

They got lasers that zap, they got cures for the clap

You can see your insides on TV

They got all kinds of pills for all kinds of ills

But they ain’t found a cure yet for me

Out on the street where the cigarettes meet, abandon hope all who live here

There ain’t no medicine for the state that I’m in

And I gotta get myself outta here

Man Overboard, waves washing over me

Sometimes it’s a perilous sea

I’ll never learn the 12 steps to heaven, they never work for me

Drunk and disorderly

Man Overboard, straight in the deep end baby

Sometimes it’s a treacherous sea

If I’m going down it can’t hurt any more than what you did to me

Drunk and disorderly