Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott
Sunny Side Up
[Verse 1]
You can wake up in the morning with a bright smile on your face
Or slam that front door shut and complain about your race
You can walk straight out the house and you are either happy or
Sunny side is facing up or pancake spilt on floor
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I leave my house each morning and I always say hello
To the seagulls high up in the sky and the ants and the worms, the mole and the fox and the rabbit down below
[Chorus]
Sunny side up, burn the Express and the Mail
The key to real democracy is throw the Eton mob in jail
In the 70's and the 80's, we were living side by side
Now the neighbourhood is either scared or full-on radicalised
Sunny side up
Burn the Telegraph and The Sun!
Ooh, Telegraph and The Sun
[Verse 2]
And folk like that won't take a chance and gaze at family tree
In case it tells a tale of someone they'd not rather be
The thing that threatens everything ain't the colour of your skin
It's the fact that we're a melting pot and the truth is you can't swim
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And sunny side up, you see, is what will see us through
We'll wave a wave to postman, the milkman nods, the binman waves, and the paperboy waves too
[Chorus]
Sunny side up, burn the Express and the Mail
The only real democracy sees the Eton mob in jail
In the 70's and the 80's, we were living side by side
Now the neighbourhood is either scared or full-on radicalised
Sunny side up
Burn the Telegraph and The Sun!
Ooh, Telegraph and The Sun
[Outro]
Yeah, sunny side, sunny side, sunny side up
Sunny side, sunny side, sunny side up
Oh, sunny side, sunny side, sunny side up
Yeah, it's a sunny side, sunny side, sunny side up!