Television Personalities

Paradise Estate

Television Personalities


Mrs. Brown wakes up every morning 
She takes the milk from her doorstep 
Puts on a pair of faded carpet slippers 
And walks a painful mile to the launderette 

Her husband Jack is slowly dying 
Asbestos poisoning had riddled his insides 
He got his pension six years early 
When they took away his job they took away his pride 

Mrs. Wilson sets her clock for seven 
To see the children off to school 
She can't afford to give them breakfast 
Well not as a rule 

Her husband Jack has run away 
Gone with the barmaid from the Roses' Crown 
Picks up her prescription every Friday 
She's heading for her second nervous breakdown 

Jennifer Lee is only seventeen 
She had a baby when she was still at school 
Her parents have disowned her 
And the social service barely calls 

The father was a boy she met at a party 
Her sister Debbie's twenty-first 
She can't remember his face or his name very well 
Anyway he probably doesn't remember her 

And every day's the same 
On paradise estate 
Because paradise came one day too late 

We all live in little boxes 
Boxes made of bricks 
Boxes for unmarried mothers 
Elderly and sick 
Graffiti on the walls 
Tells it all 
"Gary loves July" 
National Front slogans 
"Jesus is coming" 
"Kilroy was here" 

But paradise came one day too late 
On paradise estate