Everybody's a Victim - The Proclaimers

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA

I demand recompense

For sitting on the fence

Throughout my adult life

You’ve got to put my parents in jail

For raising me in Fife

It doesn’t matter what I do

You have to say it’s alright

And I need you to send somebody around

To tuck me in at night

Because…

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA

Well it’s not my fault

That I’m positive

I just stuck a needle in my arm

And nobody told me

That sixty a day

Would do me any harm

My liver’s shrivelling like a leaf

But it’s not the whisky that doo’s it

Call me irresponsible

And I’m really going to lose it

Because…

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA

Wear a ribbon for this

Hug a stranger for that

Light a candle to the dead

And soon you’ll forget

That you ever had

A brain inside our head

We value everythin the same

We turn it into farce

So we don’t know a crisis

'Till it kicks us up the arse

Because…

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA

Everybody’s a victim

Seems we’re going that way

Everybody’s a victim

We’re becoming like the USA