What A Waste! letra

I could be the driver an articulated lorry
I could be a poet I wouldn't need to worry
I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars
I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs
What a waste
What a waste
What a waste
What a waste

CHORUS:
Because I chose to play the fool in a six-piece band,
First-night nerves every one-night stand.
I should be glad to be so inclined.
What a waste! What a waste!
But I don't mind.

I could be a lawyer with strategems and ruses
I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises
I could be a writer with a growing reputation
I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station
What a waste (x4)

Repeat CHORUS

I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution
I could be an inmate in a long-term institution
I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die
I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by
What a waste (x4)

Repeat CHORUS

(Repeat CHORUS with crescendo, then again with fade)

Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Letras

• All Those Who Say Ok
• Apples
• Back To Blighty
• Ballad Of The Sulphate Strangler
• Ballard Of The Sulphate Strangler
• Ban The Bomb
• Bed O' Roses No. 9
• Bill Haley's Last Words
• Billericay Dickie
• Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself Around London)
• Billy Bentley (promenades Himself In London)
• Bit Of Kit
• Blackmail Man
• Blockheads
• Body Song
• Broken Skin
• Bus Driver's Prayer
• Byline Brown
• Byline Browne
• Cacka Boom
• Clever Trevor
• Common As Muck
• Cowboys
• Crippled With Nerves
• D'Orine The Cow
• Dance Little Rude Boy
• Dance Of The Crackpots
• Dance Of The Screamers
• Delusions Of Grandeur
• Don't Ask Me
• England's Glory
• Father
• Fly In The Ointment
• Friends
• Fuck Off Noddy
• Fucking Ada
• Funky Disco (Pops)
• Game On
• Geraldine
• Girls (Watching)
• Happy Hippy
• Have A Word
• Heavy Living
• Hey, Hey, Take Me Away
• Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
• Honeysuckle Highway
• Huffety Puff
• I Believe
• I Could Lie
• I Made Mary
• I Want To Be Straight
• I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra
• If I Was With A Woman
• Inbetweenies
• It Ain't Cool
• Itinerant Child
• Jack Shit George
• London Talking
• Lonely (Town)
• Looking For Harry
• Love Is All
• Lullaby For Francies
• Manic Depression (Jimi)
• Mash It Up Harry
• Mischief
• My Old Man
• No Such Thing As Love
• O.k Roland
• O'Donegal
• Oh, Mr. Peanut
• One Love
• Over The Points
• Pam's Moods
• Pardon
• Patience (so What?)
• Pc Honey
• Percy The Poet
• Peter The Painter
• Plaistow Patricia
• Poo-Poo In The Prawn
• Poor Joey
• Profoundly In Love With Pandora
• Quick Quick Slow
• Quiet
• Razzle In My Pocket
• Really Glad You Came
• Reasons To Be Cheerful
• Reasons To Be Cheerful (part 3)
• Red (Letter)
• Riding The Outskirts Of Fantasy
• Rough Kids
• Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
• Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
• Sink My Boats
• Spasticus (Autisticus)
• Sueperman's Big Sister
• Sweet Gene Vincent
• Take Me To The Cleaners
• Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup (You're Sitting On)
• Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup, Your Sitting On The Chicken
• Tell Your Daddy
• Thank You Mum
• That's Enough Of That
• That's Not All
• The (Body Song)
• The Badger And The Rabbit
• The Call Up
• The Man With No Face
• The Mumble Rumble And The Cocktail Rock
• The Passing Show
• The Right People
• The Roadette Song
• There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
• This Is What We Find
• Trust (Is A Must)
• Twenty Tiny Fingers
• Twenty Tiny Fingers Sore Throat Mix
• Two Old Dogs Without A Name
• Uncooloho
• Uncoolohol
• Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy
• Upminster Kid
• Very Personal
• Wait (For Me)
• Waiting For Your Taxi
• Wake Up And Make Love With Me
• What A Waste!
• Who's To Know?
• Yes & No (paula)
• You'll See Glimpses
• You're More Than Fair
• You're My Baby
• You're My Inspiration
• You're the Why
• Your Horoscope