Elton John - Screw You Lyrics
Music by elton johnLyrics by bernie taupinReleased as a uk b-side in september, 1973When I was a boy I had a lot of funI lived by the sea, I was a fishermans sonMy mother she was a fishermans wifeShe was scrubbing floors most of her lifeThey said screw youI aint got nothing to loseI could paper a matchboxWith the money I useAt the school I attended I got into fightsI was beaten in an alley on a cold winter nightThe teachers cared less for the blood in our veinsThey got most of their thrills out of using a caneThey said screw youOh you bloody young foolsI could get more senseOut of the back end of a muleSo you see theres man who get paid for being slavesAnd men who get paid for being freeAnd theres men behind bars who pray for the lightAnd men in the suburbs who pray for the nightAnd theyre all trying to climb to the top of the mineAnd all of them say most of the wayScrew youI worked in the mill from seven till nineTears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blindTrying to make wages that werent even thereTaking hell from a foreman with the build of a bearHe said screw youThis is all youll ever doIts the only existence for someone like you
