slip kid

i've got my clipboard

text books

lead me to the station

yeah

i'm off to the civil war

i've got my kit bag my heavy boots

i'm running in the rain

gonna run till my feet are raw

slip kid. slip kid

second generation

i'm a soldier at thirteen

slip kid. slip kid

realization

there's no easy way to be free

no easy way to be free

it's a hard

hard world

oh yea

i left my doctor's prescription

bungalow behind me

i left the door ajar

i left my vacuum flask

full of hot tea and sugar

left the keys right in my car

slip kid. slip kid

second generation

i'm only half way up the tree

slip kid. slip kid

i'm a relation

i'm a soldier at sixty-three

there's no easy way to be free

slip kid. slip kid

slip kid

slip kid. slip kid

slip kid

yea

keep it moving now

slip kid. slip kid

give me more

i've got my clipboard

text books

lead me to the station

yeah

i'm off to the civil war

i've got my kit bag

my heavy boots

i'm running in the rain

gonna run till my feet are raw

slip kid. slip kid

slip out of trouble

slip over here and set me free

slip kid. slip kid

second generation

i'm sliding down the hill like me

there's no easy way to be free

no easy way to be free

no easy way to be free