Week Eighty-Six: YouTube Suggestions - The Levellers - "One Way" - Levelling the Land

So, as you may or may not already know, I have created playlists on YouTube of all of the videos that I post to my blog, and sometimes, as I'm adding these videos to the playlists, I'll jot down some of the suggestions to post about at a later time. And, well, I guess that "later time" has now arrived because I am going to use this week to post about one suggested video from each of my four playlists.

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I'm super-excited that I get to see my nephew, Carter, in a few days, and you may remember that in January of this year, I posted about the band, Carter USM, during my OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) Week, which is part of Playlist II.

One of the suggested videos for Carter USM's song, "The Only Living Boy in New Cross", just so happened to be "One Way" by The Levellers. I can honestly say that I had not heard this song since the days that Alex Luke was still co-hosting The Adventure Club on 94.5 The EDGE because this does not seem like a Josh song at all; it's more of an Alex song, but I could be wrong --- it wouldn't be the first time!!!

Regardless, this is a fantastic little tune, and the video is really fun to watch too...so enjoy!!!

There's only one way of life

And that's your own your own your own

My father when I was younger

Took me up on to the hill

That looks down on the city smog

And above the factory spill

He said now this is where I come

When I wanted to be free

but he never was in his lifetime

But these words stuck with me hey

And so I ran from all of this

And I climbed that highest hill

I looked down on to my life

Above the factory spill

I looked down onto my life

As the family disgrace

Then all my friends on the starting line

Their wages off to chase

Yes and all my friends and all their jobs

All the bloody waste

CHORUS

Well well when I grew up,

learned to love and laugh

Circled A's on the underpass

The noise we thought would never stop

Died a death when the punks grew up

And we choked on all our dreams

We wrestled with our fears

Running through the heartless concrete streets

Chasing our ideas Run

And all 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

Like some old distant singer

And they don't look so appealing

To the eyes of this poor sinner

CHORUS