歌曲名 Secondhand Car Spiv 歌手名 The Kinks

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I was born a slum gutter infantile

Brute force educated delinquent juvenile

I am a product of mass produced factory fodder

Streets full of tenement blocks rat infested filth and squalor

I left school went straight on the dole

And unemployment's no enjoyment

Welfare state owned my mind and my body and my soul

So I worked my way up to be a second hand car spiv

But don't judge me harshly because I'm just a slum kid

I built up my business with a quick wit and fist

So don't double cross me or my hoods will dissect you

With their black jacks and shiv

Slum kids never get a break they've got to fight their way up

Wheel and deal beg and steal

Sweat blood to earn a buck

I didn't want to work on the factory floor

I wasn't content I wanted more

Than to be a slave of a lathe

Work all day and go home bored

So a second hand car spiv was what I became

I built an empire because I used my brains

He was a second hand car spiv up from the slums

So don't judge him harshly because he's just a slum kid

Then he moved into property stocks and shares

And into high finance and you've got to agree

That running a multi million corporation

Sure beats selling cars second hand

Once he sold old worn out heaps to the punters on the street

Now I'm in control of the country as a whole

And the world is at my feet

The world is at his feet

Power power I've got power oozing out of me

And when you think of all the things I've done

It says a lot for one

Who worked his way up from the streets

Yes I'm a second hand car spiv

Do a deal buy and sell

It's my trade I know it well

Make a sale ring the bell

And let the suckers go to hell

Bank the profits count the change

Another sucker comes your way

Life is a crooked game

And slum kids never change