Leo Sayer - We Got Away with It lyrics

It was the opening night of a
Rock 'n Roll travelling show
And they all were there
I mean the faces everybody knows
As the long limbed beauty left
The long black limousine
The floor was wet as if the
Devil had prepared the scene
A high heel cracks and over she goes

We got away with it
They'll never catch us anyway
We had the best of it
Kids today well they just don't know

Hey you remember him, he was the face of '78
He drove a pink sports car
Straight through his manager's gate
Yeah the alarms went off
But just a little bit too late
As his tyres dug deeper through the
Lawns of the great estate
He drove into the pool
And he couldn't escape, no

He got away with it
Frogmen and cranes raised his legend high
They made a song of it
Feed the fish to close – you die

You gotta go for it
Someone will always tell you no
Fly in the face of it
Showbiz folks always put on a show

Living the high life – big time
Living outside the law
Living the bright light – high time
– that's what living's for

He was a rock god adonis in the big hotel
Where they partied all night
Every night a different girl
Yeah the drugs came in, the money went out
Nobody really cared
When the candle fell over and the
Flames lit his bleach blond hair
The dude slept through it as
The fireball flared yeah

We got away with it
Sometimes I stop just to reminisce
Right in the thick of it
Lips pursed waiting for stardom's kiss

We love the smell of it
The fame and fortune is our goal
Selfish and spoilt by it
Days lived hard slowly taking their toll

We got away with it
I got some stories I can't tell
But hey there's a book in it
Human suffering always sells

Always sells