State Vs Jeeves Songtext
von Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott

You′re on benefits
We're all providing for you
From the streets that we sweep to the lights while she sleeps
Is there anything else we can do?

You′re on welfare
Welfare is part of your life
It's the use we forget to the tax breach you get
For yourself, your children, and wife

One thing you know from your head to your toe
The confusion that this life achieves
Hate yourself, man don't get even
′Cause it′s always been State vs. Jeeves

You're in poverty
Poverty is more than a wage
It′s the team you support, it's the records you bought
It′s the news that you read on your page


We're all claimers
Claiming a place on this earth
From the park you were pushed to the midwife who pushed
The scream on the day of your birth

One thing you know from your head to your toe
The confusion that this life achieves
Hate yourself, man don′t get even
'Cause it's always been State vs. Jeeves

We′re on scratch cards
Scratching like chickens through dust
Peckin′ our way through the shit and the hay
And the feeling it's this life or bust

It′s that hoodie you wear and that look of despair
As the chambermaid catches the feeves
It's that hate of the state when you′re having your plate
Polished and refilled by Jeeves

And one thing you know from your head to your toe
The confusion that this life achieves
Hate yourself, man don't get even
′Cause it's always been State vs. Jeeves


Oh, State vs. Jeeves
State vs. Jeeves
Oh, State vs. Jeeves
One thing you know
Head to your toes
State vs. Jeeves
Ooh, ooh, oh