We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £0.50 GBP  or more

     

about

I started to write a song about how bleak things can look, but it ended up being a more optimistic vision of a better world.
FYI: Episodes 4-6 are fine.

lyrics

I dream of a place
Where the sun always shines half the time
And the rest of the time it's still fine
Cos when it rains, nobody minds
The people are open and kind

Were nobody ever gets mugged on the train
The children are quiet
And everyone's sane
And, regardless of colour or creed
We're all treated the same
And life is a game
Every day

In Utopia
This Utopia of mine
Only lives in my mind
But then so do I
There's a million things
I'd be dying to show ya.
If this was Utopia.

In Utopia, junk food is always the answer
The burgers are healthy
The steak chips cure cancer
Chocolate won't melt on the seat of your sofa
Get on your trousers and end up all over the place
And you're always aware
When you have food on your face

In Utopia
Simon Cowell doesn't exist
And you don't get hangovers
When you get drunk
Capitalism never existed
Communism did but never got twisted
All men are created completely equal
And Lucas never ruined Star Wars
With all of those prequels
Those godawful prequels
Man, they were awful

So, there's no room for you, George
In Utopia
This Utopia of mine
Only lives in my mind
But then, so do I
You could walk down the street
Without anyone trying to grope ya
If this was Utopia

In Utopia you don't get fat when you eat
The toilets are clean no-one pees on the seat.
Farts smell like roses
And sweat tastes like strawberry wine
And no-one complains
when your songs don't rhyme in the bridge

You problably have
Your own opinions
About the sort things
Utopia should be like
And that's fine, but
This one is mine...

In Utopia nobody ever feels odd
There's no need for war
So there's no need for god
Nobody ever feels lonely and cries
Nobody ever gets poorly and dies
Pets live forever, even the hamsters
Also, those cigarettes won't give you cancer
All drugs are legal and perfectly safe
So you can smoke in the pub with all of your mates
Dog owners clean up the mess of their pets
Cats don't kill birds
And rodents aren't pests.
No photos of ugly kids on Facebook walls
Wait, even better, No ugly kids at all!
And Christmas day? That should be every Sunday
And Easter day should also be every Sunday.....
Okay, we'll have them on alternate Sundays
And, every week, we'll have a whole bunch of Sundays
This is at least the fifth time that I have said Sunday
And surely
That's all the Sundays that I owe ya..

When I sing of Utopia
This Utopia of mine
Only lives in my mind
But then so do I
There's a million things I'd be dying to show ya....

credits

from Allergic To Music, released January 23, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Alistair J. Pearson Doncaster, UK

Following a bilateral lung transplant in 2010, I started making loads of noise. The only way you will be able to find out what I do is to listen to my songs. You might even like it. My mum does.

contact / help

Contact Alistair J. Pearson

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Alistair J. Pearson, you may also like: