Bright New Day

Oh, bright new day!
We’re movin' away
Mam, what’s up?
We’re startin' all over again
Is it a summons mother?
Oh, bright new day!
We’re movin' away
Sammy!
Where nobody’s heard of our name
I never done nothin'! Honest, mam!
Where we can begin again
Feel we can win and then
Live just like living should be
Got a new situation
A new destination
No reputation followin' me!
What is it? What is it?
We’re getting out
We’re moving house
We’re startin' all over again
Yeah!
We’re leaving this mess
For our new address
65 Skelmersdale Lane
Where’s that, mam?
Is that in the country?
What’s it like there?
Where the air is so pure you get drunk just by breathing
The washing stays clean on the line
And there’s space for the kids
'Cause the garden’s that big
It’ll take you a week just to reach the far side
(spoken)
Come on Sammy, Mickey, you’ve all gorra help
Er, please excuse us, we’ve gorra pack
We’re movin'
(sung)
What did she say?
They’re movin' away
Praise the Lord, He has delivered us at last!
They’re getting out
They’re moving house
Life won’t be the same as in the past
I can safely predict a sharp drop in the crime rate
It’ll be calm and peaceful 'round 'ere
And now I might even get paid what is mine
An' you’ll see the graffiti will soon disappear
Just pack up the bags
We’re leaving the rags
The wobbly wardrobe
Chest of drawers that doesn’t close
The two-legged chair
The carpet so bare
You wouldn’t see it if wasn’t for the holes
Now that we’re movin'
Now that we’re improvin'
Let’s just wash our hands of this lot
It’s no longer fitting for me to be sitting
On a sofa I know for a fact was knocked off
We might get a car
Be all la-dee-dah
Beep beep!
Go driving out to the sands
Mickey! Sammy! The sands, yeah!
And at the weekend
A gentleman friend
Might take me dancing to the local bands
We’ll have a front room
And then if it should happen
His Holiness flies in from Rome
He can sit there with me
Eating toast, drinking tea
In the sort of surroundings that remind him of home
(spoken)
It’s like the country, isn’t it, mam?
You’ll be alright out here, son. Away from the muck and the dirt and the bloody
trouble. I could dance — come 'ere!
Get off! Get off!
(sung)
Oh, bright new day
We’re movin' away
We’re startin' all over again
All over again!
Oh, bright new day
We’re movin' away
Where nobody’s heard of our name
(spoken)
What’re you laughin' at?
I’m not laughin', I’m smilin'. I haven’t seen you happy like this for ages, mam!
I am happy now, son. But, hey, where’s the others?
They went into that field over there, mam
Sammy. Sammy, get off that bleedin' cow before I kill ya! Christ,
what’s our Donna Marie stepped into? Sammy, that cow’s a bull! Come 'ere the
pair of ya!
(sung)
Now we can begin again
Feel we can win and then
Live just like living should be
Got a new situation
A new destination
No reputation followin' me!
We’re gettin' out
We’re movin' house
We’re goin' away
We’re gettin' out today
Gettin' out today
We’ve movin', movin' movin', we’re movin', we’re movin'
Movin' house
We’re goin' away
Oh, bright new day!