There Goes A Tenner

Album: The Dreaming (1982)
Charted: 93
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  • Okay, remember
    Okay, remember
    That we have just allowed
    Half an hour
    To get in, do it, and get out

    The sense of adventure
    Is changing to danger
    The signal has been given
    I go in
    The crime begins
    My excitement
    Turns into fright

    All my words fade
    What am I gonna say?
    Mustn't give the game away

    We're waiting
    We're waiting
    We're waiting

    We got the job sussed
    This shop's shut for business
    The lookout has parked the car
    But kept the engine running
    Three beeps means trouble's coming

    I hope you remember
    To treat the gelignite tenderly for me
    I'm having dreams about things
    Not going right
    Let's leave in plenty of time tonight

    Both my partners
    Act like actors
    You are Bogart
    He is George Raft
    That leaves Cagney and me
    (What about Edward G.?)

    We're waiting
    We're waiting
    We're waiting

    You blow the safe up
    Then all I know is I wake up
    Covered in rubble
    One of the rabble needs mummy
    (What's all this then?)
    The government will never find the money
    (What's all this then?)

    I've been here all day
    A star in strange ways
    Apart from a photograph
    They'll get nothing from me
    Not until they let me see my solicitor

    Oh, I remember
    That rich, windy weather
    When you would carry me
    Pockets floating
    In the breeze

    Oh, there goes a tenner
    Hey look! There's a fiver
    There's a ten-shilling note
    Remember them?
    That's when we used to vote for him Writer/s: KATE BUSH
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Rob from LondonThis song was Kate's only single in the UK not to make the chart.
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