[00:00.29]Dead in the Water - Operation Mincemeat
[00:01.07]Lyrics by：David Cumming/Felix Hagan/Natasha Hodgson/Zoe Roberts
[00:01.80]Composed by：David Cumming/Felix Hagan/Natasha Hodgson/Zoe Roberts
[00:02.55]Produced by：Steve Sidwell
[00:03.13]If I had a touch of that courage
[00:06.13]I'd be marching my way through that door
[00:09.99]But it's part of my biology
[00:12.49]To start with an apology
[00:14.94]And sorry won't win us this war
[00:20.03]If only things were different
[00:24.83]If only I were different
[00:30.53]I wish I was a maggot
[00:35.29]My insides ripe and liquified
[00:37.69]I'd wait in the dark for it all to start
[00:39.92]Then touch the sky
[00:41.42]'Cause when you are a maggot
[00:43.42]The parts are already supplied
[00:45.92]I'd be born with the things
[00:47.18]To give me wings so I could fly
[00:50.27]Another plan that's stuck on the ground
[00:53.71]Before it's invented one more scheme
[00:56.76]Gets rejected before it's even dissected
[00:59.22]Every inch forward
[01:02.22]And ten miles back
[01:04.94]And that's that
[01:06.09]Dead in the water again
[01:11.31]I wish I was a tadpole
[01:13.37]A slimy nascent thing
[01:15.90]No need to create
[01:17.11]I'd just mutate and then I'd swim
[01:19.56]'Cause if I was a tadpole literally
[01:21.85]I could leap forward on a whim
[01:24.16]There'd be no read tape
[01:25.41]I'd just take shape and develop limbs
[01:28.38]One day I'll metamorphosize
[01:30.72]The scales will tumble from their eyes
[01:32.65]And thus shall end this wretched old routine
[01:36.70]They'll hear all these ideas of mine
[01:38.95]And realise that all this time
[01:40.89]There's more to me than they have ever seen
[01:44.43]But until then
[01:46.52]Until then
[01:48.67]I wish I was a maggot or a tadpole or a termite or a wasp
[01:51.67]I don't know
[01:52.37]Something that could start small pupate
[01:53.78]Grow legs wings or gills
[01:54.74]To escape this hell that I'm living in
[01:56.49]Wait
[01:56.94]Maybe I should think big
[01:57.87]Maybe like a lion or a blue whale hippopotamus?
[02:00.04]No
[02:00.33]Don't be ridiculous this is a problem
[02:02.28]God I wish that I could change my life
[02:05.50]Be the one who could hold onto their attention
[02:07.68]Blow their minds
[02:09.27]With ideas that defy human comprehension
[02:11.43]Make them say oh Cholmondely you clever chap
[02:16.58]But I'm back dead in the water again
[02:20.94]Oh I don't know maybe I'll just
[02:25.60]Pop it in the tray