Seventeen Going Under

	  		
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I remember the sickness was forever 
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I remember snuff videos 
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Cold septembers 

The distances we covered 
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The fist fights on the beach 
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The bizzies round us up 
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Do it all again next week 


Embryonic love 
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The first time that it scarred 
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Embarrass yourself for someone 
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Crying like a child 

And the boy who kicked Tom's head in 
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Still bugs me now 
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That's the thing it lingers 
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And claws you when you're down 

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  I was far too scared to hit him 
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But I would hit him in a heartbeat now 
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That's the thing with anger 
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It begs to stick around 


So it can fleece you of your beauty 
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And leave you spent with nowt to offer 
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It makes you hurt the ones who love you 
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You hurt them like they're nothing 
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You hurt them like they're nothing 

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  See I spent my teens enraged 
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Spiraling in silence 
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And I armed myself with a grin 
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'Cause I was always a fuckin' joker 

Buried in their humour 
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Amongst the white noise and boys' boys 
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Locker room talkin' lads' lads 
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Drenched in cheap drink and snide fags 

A mirrored picture of my old man 
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Oh God the kid's a dab hand 

Canny chanter, but he looks sad 
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  God, the kid looks so sad 

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She said the debt, the debt, the debt 

So I thought about shifting gear 
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  And how she wept and wept and wept 
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Luck came and died round here 

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I see my mother 

The DWP see a number 
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She cries on the floor encumbered 
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I'm seventeen going under 
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I'm seventeen going under 
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I'm seventeen going under 
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I'm seventeen going under 

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