Roger Waters - Three Wishes lyrics

"I went to buy aa gas bottle at first
I wanted to buy a big one, but then
I hadn't got enough money, So I had to buy
A smaller one and I think if
I bought a bigger one, Then it
Would have been the way I wanted
It and then, we went home, And I
Put the children to bed and I tidied
The flat and everything and then they
Were asleep and everything was a kind
Of night i made a bed
In the bathroom i carried them there and
Put on the gas bottle but
Today when I think back about
That if God did take me
I would've have been in hell
Because I wasn't right"

Reached back for the bottle
And rubbed against the lamp
Genie came out smiling
Like some Eastern tramp
He said, "Hey, boy, what's happening?
What is going on? You can have three wishes
If you don't take too long
If you don't take too long" i said
"Well I wish they all were
Happy in the Lebanon
Wish somebody'd help me write this song
I wish when I was young
My old man had not been gone"
Genie said, "Consider it done"

There's something in the air
And you don't know what it is
You see someone through a window
Who you've just learned to miss
And the road leads on to glory but
You've used up your last wish
Your last wish and you want her to come home

Bring her home genie said, "I'm sorry
But that's the way it goes
Where the hell's the lamp sucker?
It's time for me to go bye!"

There's something in the air
And you don't know what it is
You see someone through a window
Who you've just learned to miss
And the road leads on to glory but
You've used up your last wish
Your last wish and you want her to come home

"I go there sometimes twice a year now
Sometimes only
Once and sometimes when I feel like crying
I just go there"