I smoked Consulates and Park Drive, drank Nookie Brown
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Learned how to skive
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Polo mints to hide my breath from my mum
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Did a little weed cuz it felt like fun
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Did a little bit of speed if my friend had some
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Nicked Volkswagen badges I'm a Beastie Boys son
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Me so horny, me so young and I still get my washing done
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Auntie Joe died of cancer God didn't have an answer
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Rhythm was a dancer
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Any room for a chancer? That's me in the corner, thanks sir!
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I wore a troop track suit, British Knights shoes, Kangol hat like LL Cool's
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Before I was 'avin it, 'avin it large
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They nicked the BMX from out my garage
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Knew it was Tier from off the estate cuz every time he'd see me, he'd smile like we were mates
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From then on in I'd have to walk to me Nan's
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And I'd dream my dreams through a sea of prams
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Like a hooligan on the football stands
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And I'd throw the v's to Leeds and West Ham
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Then I ran, I ran so far away down Scotia Road to a taxi bay
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Then I ran again cuz I couldn't pay, a Muslim didn't get his fare that day
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I apologise today
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Things are better when they start
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That's how the 80s broke my heart
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And who are you calling poof? You like Wham, man, I hate that stuff
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And then my grandad died and left a hole in the family and lots of women had to nanny me
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School was a laugh, they didn't have ADD, thick was the term they used for me
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(over and over)
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Repeatedly
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(over and over)
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Take my breath away take my breath away
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Bidly bidly bidly bong
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Pass it on the left hand side, right turn, Clyde
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That girl in the fourth year, got pregnant and she was raised Catholic, brilliant!
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I cried, she cried, we cried, her youth died
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Drank cider in the cemetery
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The year above us had discovered E and I said it weren't for me
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?12.50? I could rob me mum's purse and buy one off chalcky
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Met a girl on Monday, drank fizzy pop on Tuesday
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Fingered her on Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday and on Saturday
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Dumped by Sunday
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Things are better when they start
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That's how the 80s broke my heart
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The wonder years, I've played my part
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That's how the 80s broke my heart
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Like I said, I lost my virginity to a girl called Anne-Marie, well she said she fancied me
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And then she said "fuck me" and I thought 'fuck me, I'm all talk and it'll be over too quickly'
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And it was but I couldn't care less, I'd seen a girl's part,made a mess on her dress, oh yes!
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You're now rocking with the best, second person in my year that had seen a breast
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I'm in my 30s now and I'm still impressed
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Where are the Falklands mum? And what have they done?
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Where do girls come from? Where do girls come from? Where do girls come from?
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It's the 80s, what you looking at, ya mong?
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So young, so long, so young, so long
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Too short, so long
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What you looking at ya mong?
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Too short, so long, too short, so long
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So long.
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The 80s
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| Robbie Williams |
