The Great Defector

Album: Blue Lights On The Runway (2009)
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  • I am the defector
    And you?re the farmer?s daughter
    You been teasing us farm boys
    Till we start talkin? about those rabbits, George
    Oh won?t you tell us ?bout those rabbits, George

    I am the defector
    I give it what it need
    Let?s make a new world order
    Let?s make it rhyme

    You?re the chocolate at the end of my Cornetto
    I love the way your underwire bra
    Always sets off that X-ray machine

    Comin? into land and
    Now I love the colour of it all
    Blue lights on the runway
    I love the colour of it all

    I am the defector
    ?Cause someone stirred my soul
    With that great big stick of hers
    Kinda looks like an oar

    The accountants have taken the movie
    Yeah, they?re on set
    The people from the mobile phone company
    Say who gets to play and who gets to not

    You?re a picture of the check out girl
    Hand me a plastic bag
    I got the sweats trying to open it
    As it all piles up, I wish I didn?t bite my nails

    Comin? into land and
    Now I love the colour of it all
    Blue lights on the runway
    I love the colour of it all
    Getting ready to spill my guts and
    I love the colour of it all
    To the waitress on roller skates
    I love the colour of it all
    Oh the colour of it all

    I am the great defector
    So I must affect an air
    Of a man who?s maybe seen too much
    But still just manages to care

    Still you?re the chocolate at the end of my Cornetto
    I love the way your underwire bra
    Always sets off that X-ray machine

    Comin? into land and
    Now I love the colour of it all
    Blue lights on the runway
    I love the colour of it all
    Getting ready to spill my guts and
    I love the colour of it all
    To the, to the waitress on roller skates
    I love the colour of it all
    Oh the colour of it all

    Waitress on roller skates [x8]
    (Love the colour of it all) [x2]
    Writer/s: DAVE BRIAN GERAGHTY, DOMINIC MICHAEL PHILLIPS, PAUL ANTHONY NOONAN
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Anon from DublinWhat’s with the ‘new world order’ reference?
  • Peter from ColchesterSo no Talking Heads influence then? Great tune though.
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