| Just like when we were seventeen |
| We said wed move to Malta, claim nationality |
| And now that we are twenty-three |
| Days tethered to the running track |
| Evenings chained to the dish rack |
| I’m called up to the Maltese national team |
| My vision is impeccable, my first touch is obscene |
| A world cup qualifier finds me fifty, forty, thirty yards from goal |
| A late sub on in an off the striker role |
| Was it wind? Did it take a bad deflection? |
| A decade spent nursing a fear that you might never make it |
| The crowd draws breathe at once it swerves to the top corner |
| The Sunday tabloid press declares me the new kind of Malta |
| With my name on shirts, your face on the cash |
| That every week just piles inside our bank account |
| We’d rule the roost and we could start a family |
| I think we’d make about a hundred million bucks |
| I head down to the mint and tell them |
| Pound every coin deep into the ground |
| Burn every note in circulation |
| There’s a new face on the currency of our nation |
| I hand them a photograph of you |
| The most beautiful thing they’d ever seen |
| The press starts a rolling, your image on Euros |
| The workforce retires to the bathroom |
| With my name on shirts, your face on the cash |
| That every week just piles inside our bank account |
| We’d rule the roost and we could start a family |
| I think we’d make about a hundred million bucks |
| With my name on shirts, your face on the cash |
| That every week just piles inside our bank account |
| We’d rule the roost and we could start a family |
| I think we’d make about a hundred million bucks |