The Pub

[Verse 1]
Quiz Night replaced the Blues Night
In 1983
Blues Night only popular
With allotment slim and me

Pool Night took over from Quiz Night
Around 1985
The men brought their cues, the women stayed away
The place was barely alive

[Pre-Chorus 1]
All we ever needed was
A lamp post or a tree
All we ever needed was
A place to come and dream

[Chorus]
We were park bench heroes
Nearly De Niros
Nought to zeros
We'd come and dream

[Chorus 1]
Of a swan flying high over a graveyard
Where an angel had spread out her wings
Flashing her teeth in some angelical smile
And some not so angelical things

Of a picture of burning hell at the bottom
With a message in Latin or Greek
Something like, "The meek shall inherit the earth
But the strong will then inherit the meek"

[Verse 2]
Go on, now, go
Walk out the door
Karaoke Night came and went
Around 1994

A new landlady breathed some life
In 1996
And we watched as it evaporated
Inches from her lips

[Chorus]
We were park bench heroes
Nearly De Niros
Nought to zeros
We'd come and dream

[Chorus 2]
Of a swan flying high over a graveyard
Where an angel had spread out her wings
Flashing her teeth in some angelical smile
And some not so angelical things

When a church choir suddenly appears from the jukebox
Singing this incredible song
"Blessed are the weak and the too shy to speak
When there's nothing much at stake for the strong"

[Verse 3]
A new landlord and landlady
Took the helm in 2006
Steered us close to rocky shores
Nearly sunk this ship

Just like all the others
They left us there to list
Park bench heroes
Are rarely missed