For The Boys Lyrics

Well he's just eighteen fresh out of school

There's no way he's sitting five more years a fool

He packs it in and heads out to Beijing

Living with a friend that he can't quite bear

But there's yang rou chuan'r and Yanjing beer

Living out his newfound Asian fling

Well he's out one night dancing at the club

There's a whisky too many and a big bad blunt

Last stop at the midnight Chinese oven

And now he's playing the cardinal paf game

Glass slammed on the table ain't that a shame

He's just cut his left hand wide open

A few years later living in DC

Coverin' breaking news at a breakneck speed

Refueling on fresh lime and mucho Coronas

He gets off filming the fury and fire

Down in Ferguson or near the Bal'more pier

K street rumour has a VJ on the rise

But the bang bang club and Mr Nachtwey too

Tell them junkies getting high on news

Adrenaline alone won't ever win the race

So when the county judge lets Wilson go

It's a right old riot bricks are flying low

He gets smashed right then and there in the face

I said this is for the boys out there

Who like to get in trouble

The ones who plow ahead and hold the saddle

'Cause we the kind of guys

Don't care when or why

We get right back up when life bury us down

Life in Brussels so mondane

But if he hadn't left the States he would've gone insane

Depression deep under his skin now

Dreams of how his lost his sight

Waking in cold sweats at night

He gotta find a way to fix that worried brow

He feels like a loner at the EU Commission

Dirty politicians and their journo minions

But the doc says that he gotta to stay put

It's a long cold year waiting for them refills

And just when he's free of them wacko pills

He drops a half-broken mirror on his left foot

I said this is for the boys out there

Who like to get in trouble

The ones who plow ahead and hold the saddle

'Cause we the kind of guys

Don't care when or why

We get right back up when life bury us down

Sometimes friend life works in ways

Through the dark and dodgy alleways

Right back where you started out so young

The choices you make and the path you walk

Aiming sideways at the fork

Is what it takes to write a goddamn song

Big blue sky shining sun

Life is good when you ain't gotta run

Living by the sea new beginnings

He got cuts and bruises deep inside

They look at him funny but he don't mind

Of his life and times, he's the only king

I said this is for the boys out there

Who like to get in trouble

The ones who plow ahead and hold the saddle

'Cause we the kind of guys

Don't care when or why

We get right back up when life bury us down

I said we get right back up when life bury us down

I said we get right back up when life bury us down