BRIGHT NEW DAY

Oh bright new day, we're moving away
We're starting all over again
Oh bright new day, we're moving away
Where nobody's heard of our name

Where we can begin again, feel we can win and then
Live just like living should be
Got a new situation, a new destination
And no reputation following me

We're getting out, we're moving house
We're starting all over again
We're leaving this mess for our new address
65 Skelmersdale Lane
The air is so pure you get drunk just by breathing
The washing stays clean on the line
And there's space for the kids
'Cos the garden's that big
It'll take you a week just to reach the far side

What did she say? They're moving away
Praise the lord, he has delivered at last!
They're getting out, they're moving house
Life won't be the same as in the past!

I can safely predict a sharp drop in the crime rate
It'll be calm and peaceful round here
Just pack up the bags, we're leaving the rags
The wobbly wardrobe, chest of drawers that never closed
The two legged chair, the carpet so bare
You wouldn't see it if it wasn't for the holes
Now that we're moving, now that we're improving
Let's just wash our hands of this lot
It's no longer fitting, for me to be sitting
On a sofa I know for a fact was ripped off

We might get a car, Be all lah-di-dah
Go driving off to the sands
And at the weekend
A gentleman friend might take me dancing to the local bands

We'll have a front room, and then if it should happen,
That his Holiness flies in from Rome
He can sit there with me, eating toast, drinking tea
And the sunny surroundings will remind him of home

Oh bright new day, we're moving away
We're starting all over again
Oh bright new day, we're goin' away
Where nobody's heard of our name
Now we can begin again
Feel we can win and then
Live just like living should be

I got a new situation, a new destination
And no reputation following me
We're getting out, we're moving house
We're going away
Getting out today

We're moving, moving, moving
Moving, moving house
We're going away
Oh bright new day!

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