ELTON JOHN - Screw You lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Released as a uk b-side in september, 1973<br><br>When I was a boy I had a lot of fun<br>I lived by the sea, I was a fisherman's son<br>My mother she was a fisherman's wife<br>She was scrubbing floors most of her life<br><br>They said screw you<br>I ain't got nothing to lose<br>I could paper a matchbox<br>With the money I use<br><br>At the school I attended I got into fights<br>I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter night<br>The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins<br>They got most of their thrills out of using a cane<br><br>They said screw you<br>Oh you bloody young fools<br>I could get more sense<br>Out of the back end of a mule<br><br>So you see there's man who get paid for being slaves<br>And men who get paid for being free<br>And there's men behind bars who pray for the light<br>And men in the suburbs who pray for the night<br>And they're all trying to climb to the top of the mine<br>And all of them say most of the way<br>Screw you<br><br>I worked in the mill from seven till nine<br>Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind<br>Trying to make wages that weren't even there<br>Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear<br><br>He said screw you<br>This is all you'll ever do<br>It's the only existence for someone like you