The Perception Of Johnny Punter lyrics

Song information

Artist: Fish
Album: Sunsets On Empire

Lyrics

Just another nigger, a spooky piece of white trash
Just another jewboy, spic, mick, yid, raghead motherfucker living on the planet

(Usa version: just another wake up, a hostage of a sunrise
Just another paranoid, victimised motherfucker living on the planet.)

Just before it kicks in

Just like a silver bullet
Take a good look at yourself in the mirror and tell me that it's worth it
Said it'll never happen, you said you'd never get caught out
You settled in a habit, so now you're mr fixit
Just another alien, living on the planet
Living on the planet, living on the planet
It's just one of those days when you know that something's gonna happen

Another betrayal, lose another friend
You know you never need them, on your own until the bitter end
Just another pick up, just another kill, someone else's daughter, someone else's girl
Living on the planet
We are in another world, living on the planet we are, we are
And you know there's some days when you feel that something's gonna happen
This is one of those days which you know that something's gonna happen
And something's gonna happen

Somedays you just wake up and you don't have any real sense of direction, you just can't find the will to get up and go through with it all, your next allotted 24 hour slice of destiny
There's just a bad vibe and rather than a world of opportunities, it's full of threats and just too many negative variables
I'd noticed these houses way up in the hills and I tried to imagine what it would have been like living up there isolated from the world, every night watching the fires crawl slowly down the valley, and knowing that one night it was gonna be your turn for the visit
I tried to imagine what it would have been like hiding in a cellar with your family and the fear hoping that when they do come, when the dogs don't bark, and the silence is around you, you hope that they burn the whole house around your ears and they don't discover you hiding in the cellar because you've got nowhere to go, and you know that one day that something's gonna happen
There's one day, just one day

Just another village burning in the hills
I saw it on the tv, just another thrill
Someone else's problems, someone else's grief
Someone else's children, living on the planet
We are in another world living on the planet
We are in another world living on the planet, we are, we are

It's just one of those places that never exist till you've been there
It's just one of those things that you never will see till you wake up
And you know that somewhere there's somebody that's out there who thinks like you do
And you hope that today is the day that it's all gonna happen for you
And you know there's somedays when you feel that something's gonna happen
This is one of those days which you know that something's gonna happen