You’re waiting in a classroom

For the lectures to begin

You’ve been there for thirteen hours

Pondering your sins

Tommy Lee he’s at the Big H

Scratching off a ticket

He ain’t been to school for weeks

He’s been busy with Bridget

Sammy’s driving doughnuts

In an old Manchester lot

The police they are after her

She’s minutes off from caught

And the holy dove sits in its cage

It’s waiting to be bought

Sold and bought and sold again

As is Big Man’s plot

For he’s determined it won’t be free

Everyone must pay

For just to chance to touch its wings

And tell it what they say

For hope that will answer prayers

We all it will not

For Big Man he will tire soon

And then it will be shot

Tommy meets you after class he’s been skipping again

He paid the dues and paid the costs but he cannot be bought

So you walk down

Lay in the grass

And dream about your youth

You realise that he still has his

It feels so damn uncouth

Unfair you think

That all your effort

Leaves you just a cog

While Tommy he does nothing much

And he never gets bogged

Well Sammy thinks herself a rebel

Some kind of old hero

But once the cops

Have locked her up

She’ll look more Nero

And Big Man he will visit her

Wearing a smug grin

She will fight and scream and she will not give it

But in the end

Her rebel dreams

Won’t keep her out the pen

While Tommy lives free from their system

With no dreams at all

You’ll wonder if when push comes shove

He ever truly falls

Or if uncaring

He just keeps

A’doing what he does

And sweeps his losses right away under another rug

Maybe he’s a rebel too

Just off a different kind

For Big Man will never catch him

Or entrap his young mind

So maybe he is better off

Or maybe he is lost

But either way

You’ll never say

That Tommy has been caught