Fable Of The Urban Fox

Album: As Days Get Dark (2021)
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  • They came in from the country
    They were hounded from their homes
    They'd always dreamed about the city
    With its towers and spires and domes
    So the dog fox and his vixen
    Vowed to flee their savage fields
    To a land of hope and glory
    And a future it could yield

    There's no rest however far we roam
    Somewhere on this earth, we will find home

    But the city didn't want the foxes, the city didn't care
    Their help and hope and heart and hearth they dreamed of weren't there
    So they scavenged and they foraged
    Slept from shitty place to places
    Among the hostile architecture
    And all the hostile faces

    There's no rest however far we roam
    Somewhere on this earth, we will find home

    And the daily papers found their plight and presence most concerning
    Their headlines screamed enough's enough, we're overcome with vermin
    These fucks that skulk around our streets
    The locals live in fear
    These scruffy scrounging parasites
    They don't belong 'round here

    There's no rest however far we roam
    Somewhere on this earth, we will find home

    One night they met a bulldog
    He said, "What you doing here, then?"
    They told him of the redcoats, of their fallen the hunted brethren
    They said, "There is no going home now, the land we love is cruel"
    The dog said, "Fuck off back to Foxland, these streets are fucking full"

    There's no rest however far we roam
    Somewhere on this earth, we will find home

    One cold and hungry night, they find their dinner sitting pretty
    The foxes can't believe their luck, who keeps chickens in the city?
    But the chicken lover sees them prowl his pricey habitat
    So he bashes both their heads in with his trusty cricket bat

    There's no rest however far we roam
    Somewhere on this earth, we will find home Writer/s: Aiden Moffat, Malcolm Middleton
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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