Pay To Play by Michael Wheelwright

This is a song from my 2013 backlog.

[Update] I also did a later extended version here https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright-labs/pay-to-play-extended

Lyrics:

The Dauphin of Dagenham and Lady Constance Biscuit-Tin
Proceeding down the high street in their daily quest for fags and gin
Encountering resistance from the school kids at the bust stop shouting
Slogans from the internet, oh yeah

It's Thursday afternoon, did you hear the news they say
The future's here today, but we're gonna have to pay to play
And all our yesterdays, yeah, they'll be swept away
On a massive tide of glitter, but we're gonna have to pay to play
We're gonna have to pay to play

Mary Queen of discount slacks collapsed just outside TK Maxx yeah
Someday her prince will come but probably not today coz now she's
Under observation on a Section 136 coz she had
Advocaat and Valium for breakfast on her Weetabix

[Repeat Chorus]

Bring me your destitute you lame and your unfashionable and
I will take their pictures and arrange them very tastefully

[Repeat Chorus]

[Short extract from Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.