A Man of Great Promise letra

I bought the paper yesterday and I saw the obituary
And I read of how you died in pain -
Well I just couldn't understand it
If I could of changed that, then lord knows I'd do it now
But there is no going back -
And what's done is done forever

But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt -
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt

And I think of what you might have been,
A man of such great promise
Oh but, you seem to forget the dream -
And the more you saw you hated

But let's not talk of blame, for what is only natural
Like a moth going to a flame -
You had a dangerous passion

But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt -
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt

All the things that you might have been - but who am I to say?
Still I wonder -
If it's the cold earth you prefer to lay -
If it's the cold earth - you prefer to stay

The Style Council - Letras

• A Casual Affair
• A Gospel
• A Man of Great Promise
• A Solid Bond in Your Heart
• A Stones Throw Away
• A Woman's Song
• All Gone Away
• All year round
• Angel
• April's Fool
• Big Boss Groove
• Bloodsports
• Blue Cafe
• Boy Who Cried Wolf
• Call me
• Changing of The Guard
• Come to Milton Keynes
• Confessions 1, 2 3
• Confessions of a Pop Group
• Council Meetin'
• Down in The Seine
• Dropping Bombs On The White House
• Everybody's on The Run
• Fairy Tales
• Francoise
• Ghosts of Dachau
• Have You Ever Had It Blue
• Headstart for Happiness
• Heaven's above
• Here's One That Got Away
• Homebreakers
• How She Threw It All Away
• I Ain't Goin' Under
• I am leaving
• In Love for The First Time
• Internationalists
• It Didn't Matter
• It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
• It's a Very Deep Sea
• Iwasadoledadstoyboy
• Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm
• Long Hot Summer
• Love Pains
• Luck
• Me Ship Came In!
• Mick's Blessings
• Money-go-round
• Move on up
• Mr. Cool's Dream
• My Ever Changing Moods
• My Very Good Friend
• Night after night
• Party chambers
• Promised Land
• Right to go
• Shout To The Top!
• Solid Bond in Your Heart
• Soul deep (Bert Bevan's remix)
• Speak Like a Child
• Spin driftin'
• Spring, summer, autumn
• Strength Of Your Nature
• Sweet loving ways
• The Cost of Loving
• The gardener of eden
• The lodger's
• The Paris Match
• The Piccadilly trail
• The stand up comic's instructions
• The Story of Someone's Shoe
• The whole point II
• The Whole Point of No Return
• Waiting
• Waiting on a connection
• Walking the night
• Walls Come Tumbling Down
• Wanted
• Who Will Buy?
• Why I went Missing
• With Everything To Lose
• You're The Best Thing