Perseverance

I was high on a Molotov of cocktails

I was low on a hundred things

I was wrong to put my money

Where my mouth was

I was right about the whales

And the dolphins

Whales and dolphins

Whales and dolphins yeah

And I don't mind preserving time at all

I was blue about the people in the power

I was green that's my excuse

I was yellow

When they said to fight the reds

'Cos I knew I'd be beaten black and blue

Black and blue

Battered and bruised yeah

Hold the line just give it

Some time then

"Cor" what I like and

What I hate about perseverance

Ooh what I'd give and what

I'd take for perseverance

I was round and about in the area

I was wearing my suit and tie

I was lost in the Bermuda triangle

It all went pear shaped

Twisted and twined

Twisted and twined

Twisted and twined yeah

And I don't mind preserving time at all

Hold the line

Just give it some time then

"Cor" what I like and what

I hate about perseverance

Ooh what I'd give and what

I'd take for perseverance

I was lost on the road to nowhere

I was a guest on a runaway train

I was happy

'Cos I knew I was innocent

They were glad

To let me take the blame

Taking the blame

Taking the blame

Taking the blame

It's always the same 'cos

I what I like and what I hate

About perseverance

Ooh what I'd give

And what I'd take for perseverance

I haven't time

I haven't space for perseverance

'Cos I swap and change just

When I like to keep up appearance