Wouldn't Live Down to Me      by Preacher John
It's about splitting with someone after a long time together when you loved that person - when you'd felt that they actually understood you, but you find out that's not the case at all... In fact they're just focussed on their own wealthy way of life and they're just trying to squeeze you into their way of living, never mind what you believe or care about, or that you have no money to keep up with them and you do not intend to make yourself a slave to get that money....

still remember the smell and feel of you
just holding you used to make me happy
took so much to leave left some of me behind
had to get out of where you'd trapped me

you wouldn't live down to me
you wouldn't live where i found myself to be
two steps out of the gutter
it's not getting better you wouldn't live down to me
an' i wouldn't live up to your beautifully furnished dreams
i wa'nt no perfect son in law
di'nt do nothin' i was supposed to
an' i wouldn't live up to you

sometimes wonder what you would be like
if you weren't your mother's daughter
and does freedeom ever cross your mind in the quiet spaces in the night,
'tween duty and obligation,
working and consumption
and all those other bloody things,
you cou'nt wait to buy into

you wouldn't live down to me
you wouldn't live where i found myself to be
two steps out of the gutter
it's not getting better you wouldn't live down to me
an' i wouldn't live up to your beautifully furnished dreams
i wa'nt no perfect son in law
di'nt do nothin' i was supposed to
an' i wouldn't live up to you
you wouldn't live down to me
you wouldn't live where i found myself to be
two steps out of the gutter
it's not getting better you wouldn't live down to me

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