Man of Great Promise Lyrics

The song Man of Great Promise is performed by The Style Council in the album named The Complete Adventures of the Style Council in the year 1998 .



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 pa*sion

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 - The Complete Adventures of the Style Council

Nov 1998

  1. Speak Like a Child
  2. Party Chambers [*]
  3. Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 & 2 [Bevans, Bert Alernate Remix][#]
  4. Mick's Up
  5. Long Hot Summer
  6. Paris Match
  7. Lédepart [*]
  8. Solid Bond in Your Heart
  9. It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
  10. Mick's Company
  11. Spring, Summer, Autumn
  12. Whole Point of No Return
  13. Blue Caf
  14. Dropping Bombs on the White House - The Style Council, The Style Council
  15. Gospel [#]
  16. Big Boss Groove
  17. Shout to the Top!
  18. Ghosts of Dachau
  19. Piccadilly Trail
  20. Soul Deep [Bevans, Bert Remix][*]
  21. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
  22. Whole Point II
  23. Bloodsports
  24. Spin' Drifting
  25. Homebreakers
  26. All Gone Away
  27. Come to Milton Keynes
  28. Internationalists
  29. Stone's Throw Away
  30. Stand Up Comic's Instructions
  31. Boy Who Cried Wolf
  32. Man of Great Promise
  33. Down in the Seine
  34. Lodgers
  35. Luck
  36. With Everything to Lose
  37. Our Favorite Shop
  38. (When You) Call Me
  39. Have You Ever Had It Blue? [Uncut Version]
  40. Mr. Cool's Dream [*]
  41. It Didn't Matter
  42. All Year Round [*]
  43. Right to Go
  44. Heavens Above
  45. Fairy Tales
  46. Angel
  47. Walking the Night
  48. Waiting
  49. Woman's Song
  50. Francoise [*]
  51. Wanted
  52. Cost of Loving [12" Version] - The Style Council, The Style Council
  53. Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm [Um & Argh Mix]
  54. Sweet Loving Ways
  55. It's a Very Deep Sea
  56. Story of Someone's Shoe
  57. Changing of the Guard
  58. Little Boy in a Castle/A Dove Flew Down from the Elephant
  59. Gardener of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)
  60. Why I Went Missing
  61. How She Threw It All Away
  62. Iwasadoledadstoyboy
  63. Confessions 1, 2, & 3
  64. Confessions of a Pop-Group
  65. In Love for the First Time
  66. I Do Like to Be B-Side the A-Side/The Mixed Companions
  67. Promised Land [Longer Version]
  68. Can You Still Love Me?
  69. Long Hot Summer '89
  70. Everybody's on the Run/Modernism: A New Decade
  71. New Decade
  72. World Must Come Together
  73. Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha)
  74. That Spiritual Feeling
  75. Everybody's on the Run
  76. Love of the World
  77. Sure Is Sure

Man of Great Promise