Last of the Gentleman Adventurers by The Jazz Butcher Lyrics

What were they thinking?
They're never going to stop me from smoking or drinking my gin
I'm not taken in by their scared new world
Where "beauty is freedom" and "freedom" is the prize
They wouldn't know freedom if you salted it and rubbed it in their eyes
Sense of entitlement three, common sense nil. Run and see your GP
Whoa...living forever don't look so clever to me

We were the hard water kids of the Asbestos Age - no one died
Nobody chipped us or tracked us or caged us or taught us to fear. No one tried
So we helped ourselves to the world unafraid
Sometimes we even got paid
Well, now I've spent all that money I earned
But here is one thing I have learned:

There's nothing in life that's worth giving up
For the sake of five years in the Sunset Retirement Home
Nothing in life is worth giving up
For a chair in a smoke-free dayroom watching telly
Parched and immobile and praying for tea
Patronised stupid, cake on your birthday...
Now tell me, my beauty: ain't it grand to be free?
I wonder how it could have been if I'd have been a bad girl...
Smoking that reefer...a life in slow motion...
I wonder how it could have been if I'd have been a bad girl...
Gentleman callers, fast cars and what-have-you...
I wonder how it could have been...I wonder how it could have been...
Oh, I wonder most all the time
Don't wonder what you could have been. Don't wonder how it could have been
Don't wonder
Break out and find out tonight