View From The Hill-Oldfish

[00:27.18]You sit and think that everything is coming up roses [00:35.65]But you can't see the weeds that entangle your feet [00:44.87]You can't see the wood for the trees cause the forest is burning [00:53.49]And you say it's the smoke in your eyes that's making you cry [01:02.83]They sold you the view from a hill [01:07.64]They told you that the view from the hill [01:11.55]Would be further than you have ever seen before [01:20.84]They sold you a view from a hill [01:29.70]They sold you a view from a hill [01:38.27]You were a dancer and a chancer a poet and a fool [01:43.15]To the royalty of mayhem you were breaking all the rules [01:47.46]Your decadence outstanding your hopes flying high [01:51.86]One eye looking over your shoulder one eye on the hill [02:03.54]You used to say you were scared of heights [02:06.07]You said you got dizzy [02:10.92]You said you didn't like your feet being too far off the ground [02:19.70]But they said that up there you'd find the air would be clearer [02:29.10]Promised you more space to move and more room to breathe [02:37.28]They sold you a view from a hill [02:45.83]And they told you that the view from the hill [02:51.29]Is further than you'd ever seen before [02:55.06]You were holding out forever [02:57.12]Thought they'd never turn your mind [02:59.41]Your ideals they were higher than you ever could have climbed [03:03.89]We thought they couldn't buy you [03:05.94]That the price would be too high [03:08.10]That the riches there on offer [03:10.06]They just wouldn't turn your eyes [03:12.43]But your conscience it was locked up [03:14.69]In the prisons of your schemes [03:16.77]Your judgement it was blinded by your visions and your dreams [03:21.48]Praying and hoping that the view from the hill [03:25.60]Is wider than you've ever seen before [03:30.99]For the view from the hill [03:34.87]We held our heads so high (oh yeah) [03:42.11] [04:28.72]All the loved ones that you lied to are strangers left behind [04:32.99]All the ones that really mattered well you stood on as you climbed [04:37.36]You were holding out forever for your fathers and your peers [04:42.01]Holding out for everyone that ever walked in here [04:46.03]The edge was inside and you rode it all the way [04:50.40]You were playing the games that you learned yesterday [04:55.06]Hanging around like a fool with a name [04:59.10]You are holding your place for the view the view from a hill [05:09.84]They sold you the view from a hill [05:14.17]Look it all for a view from a hill [05:18.67]And you find the view's no further than you've seen before [05:27.22]They sold you the view from the hill [05:35.91]They sold you the view from the hill [05:44.44]And you stood and took it all for the view from a hill [05:57.33]It's simply coming up roses yeah [06:07.79]