One Way

There's only one way of life
 And that's your own
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 My father when I was younger
 Took me up on to the hill
 That looked down on the city smog
 Above the factory spill
 He said this is where I come
 When I want to be free
 Well he never was in his lifetime
 But these words stuck with me
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 I ran from all of this
 And I climbed that highest hill
 And looked down on my life
 Beneath the factory spill
 I looked down onto my life
 As the family disgrace
 Then to all my friends on the starting line
 Their wages off to chase
 And all my friends and all their jobs
 And all the bloody waste
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 I grew up, learned to love and laugh
 Circled A's on the underpass
 But the noise we thought would never stop
 Died a death as the punks grew up
 And we choked on our dreams
 We wrestled with our fears
 Running through the heartless streets
 Chasing our ideas
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 And the problems of the world
 Won't be solved by this guitar
 And they won't stop coming either
 By the life I've had so far
 And the bright lights of my home town
 Won't be getting any dimmer
 Though their calling has receded now
 Like some old distant singer
 And they don't seem so appealing
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 To the eyes of this poor sinner