Pulp - Common People

Happy Sunday! This song makes me want to be in a musical full of songs written by Jarvis Cocker where I spend most of the time just sneering at people. Meanwhile, listen to those lyrics…

Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you’ll never get it right
`Cos when you’re laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your Dad he could stop it all
You’ll never live like common people
You’ll never do what common people do
You’ll never fail like common people
You’ll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance, and drink, and screw
Because there’s nothing else to do

And you’ll hear the plight of Williamsburg, Brooklyn epitomized in one song. And don’t ever forget William Shatner/Joe Jackson’s cover of the song, which…is genius.