Hard Life in the Country - Live

It's hard to live in the country
 In the present state of things
 Your body gets pulled right back
 You get a terrible urge to drink
 At three a.m.
 The stick people recede
 The locals get up your nose
 And leather soles stick on cobble stones
 It's hard to live in the country
 It has a delicate ring
 Nymphette new romantics come over the hill
 It gets a bit depressing
 Paper local
 Drunken scandal
 Publish your address as well
 Locals surround where you dwell
 Old ladies confiscate your gate railings
 For government campaigns
 Its tough in home country
 Councils hold the ring
 D. Bowie look-alikes
 Permeate car parks
 Grab the churches while you can
 Port-a-loos
 Yellow cabins by methodist doors
 New Jersey car parks permeated by
 D. Bowie (sound-alikes)
 It's good to live in the country
 You can get down to real thinking
 Walk around look at geometric tracery
 Hedgehogs skirt around your leathered soles
 Fall down drunk on the road
 It's good to live in the country
 Look at yourself as a man
 The valley rings with ice-cream vans
 It's good to live in the country
 Leather soles stick on precinct flagstones
 Small up town Americas like your outskirt town
 The villagers
 Are surrounding the house
 The locals have come for their due
 It's hard to live in the country