The Exception-Eddi Reader

[ti:The Exception] [ar:Eddi Reader] [al:Eddi Reader] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.40]In a paparazzi photograph she was stepping from a car [00:05.76] [00:07.20]The tired eyes betrayed the smile of the faded singing star [00:12.45] [00:14.09]At the publishers reception on the launching of her book [00:19.01] [00:20.85]She told the grimy details and the toll the details took [00:25.70] [00:27.29]The tours applause awards of course [00:29.69] [00:30.38]But as the years went by [00:32.28] [00:33.76]Those fundamental things still applied [00:37.38] [00:40.14]Oh but she thought she'd be the exception [00:42.00] [00:42.94]Oh yes she thought she'd be the exception [00:45.57] [00:46.63]But don't we all think we're the exception [00:48.74] [00:49.82]Sometimes sometimes [00:53.86] [00:56.54]The workaholic millionaire and his pretty younger wife [01:02.08] [01:03.57]Had everything there was out there in the ad mans perfect life [01:08.84] [01:09.89]But she left him for the milkman and then moved into his flat [01:14.88] [01:16.48]Everyone said silly girl to do a thing like that [01:21.63] [01:22.92]The house the cars the credit cards but he didn't ask her why [01:28.28] [01:29.59]He knows that there's some things even cash can't buy [01:33.48] [01:36.03]Oh yes he thought he'd be the exception [01:38.11] [01:39.18]Oh yes he thought he'd be the exception [01:41.40] [01:42.39]But don't we all think we're the exception [01:44.47] [01:45.65]Sometimes sometimes [01:49.57] [01:53.06]If a handout to the hungry and the homeless [01:56.66] [01:59.15]Is a fiver in the fickle hand of fate [02:02.81] [02:05.90]Does it mean we'll be there on the guest list [02:10.62] [02:13.01]When we get to heaven's gate [02:16.26] [02:32.21]No pain no gain that's what they're saying and it's hard to disagree [02:37.04] [02:38.74]But I thought somehow they weren't including me [02:42.82] [02:45.20]Oh but I thought I'd be the exception [02:48.01] [02:48.56]Oh yes I thought I'd be the exception [02:50.64] [02:51.80]But don't we all think we're the exception [02:53.98] [02:55.03]Sometimes sometimes [02:59.02] [03:02.05]Sometimes sometimes [03:05.33] [03:08.99]Woo [03:09.29] [03:18.71]Sometimes sometimes woo [03:22.28] [03:30.98]The Exception - Eddi Reader