Lyrics Dead in the Water.lrc Operation Mincemeat
[id: pshxbwxw]
[ar: Operation Mincemeat]
[al: Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical (Original Cast Recording)]
[ti: Dead in the Water]
[length: 02:32]
[00:02.68]If I had a touch of that courage
[00:05.96]I’d be marching my way through that door
[00:09.85]But it’s part of my biology
[00:12.03]To start with an apology
[00:14.54]And sorry won’t win us this war
[00:19.80]If only things were different
[00:24.48]If only I were different
[00:30.24]I wish I was a maggot
[00:35.20]My insides ripe and liquified
[00:37.54]I’d wait in the dark for it all to start, then touch the sky
[00:40.98]’Cause when you are a maggot
[00:43.21]The parts are already supplied
[00:45.86]I’d be born with the things to give me wings, so I could fly
[00:49.95]Another plan
[00:52.16]That’s stuck on the ground before it’s invented
[00:54.52]One more scheme
[00:56.55]Gets rejected before it’s even dissected
[00:58.83]Every inch forward and ten miles back
[01:04.52]And that’s that
[01:05.74]Dead in the water again
[01:11.30]I wish I was a tadpole
[01:13.10]A slimy nascent thing
[01:15.61]No need to create I’d just mutate and then I’d swim
[01:19.12]Uh-uh, ’cause if I was a tadpole
[01:20.83]Literally, I could leap forward on a whim
[01:24.09]There’d be no red tape, I’d just take shape and develop limbs
[01:28.08]One day, I’ll metamorphosise as scales will tumble from their eyes
[01:32.37]And thus shall end this wretched old routine
[01:36.25]They’ll hear all these ideas of mine
[01:38.60]And realise that all this time
[01:40.33]There’s more to me than they have ever seen
[01:44.24]But until then, until then
[01:48.36]I wish I was a maggot
[01:49.59]Or a tadpole, or a termite, or a wasp
[01:51.58]I don’t know
[01:52.00]Something that can start small, pupate
[01:53.79]Grow legs, wings or gills
[01:54.66]To escape this hell that I’m living in
[01:56.24]Wait, maybe I should think big
[01:57.79]Maybe like a lion
[01:58.49]Or a blue whale, hippopotamus
[01:59.73]No, don’t be ridiculous!
[02:01.00]This is the problem
[02:02.06]God
[02:02.69]I wish that I could change my life
[02:05.07]Be the one that could hold onto their attention
[02:07.59]Blow their minds
[02:08.94]With ideas that defy human comprehension
[02:11.20]Make them say
[02:12.61]Oh Cholmondeley, you clever chap!
[02:16.50]But I’m back
[02:17.31]Dead in the water again
[02:20.52]Oh, I don’t know
[02:23.30]Maybe I’ll just
[02:25.23]Pop it in the tray
[02:27.06]Year of Release: 2023