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Small Town Lad Sentiments Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Welcome to the breadline, where we're counting 2 pence pieces

Letters sent with red lines, but do they know the headlines?

Wonga loans maxed out, right past the deadline

And I say that I'll change on Monday, daydreaming past bedtime

And it's all too quick to hold true, yeah you move from

Getting stoned in your old room into freezing your nuts off out in the dole queue

And I'm scared that I'll waste away and I'll stay till my brain degrades

And I'll be that old pisshead, saying "I could have made it mate"



[Hook]

You know what these are? You know what these are?

You know what these are? You know what these are?

Small town lad sentiments, small town lad sentiments spoken to my Benson ends

Small town lad sentiments spoken to my Benson ends

Small town lad sentiments spoken to my Benson ends

Small town lad sentiments spoken to my Benson ends



[Verse 2]

So end your week in the shops and getting off your trolley

Two bottles of Glen's voddy, till fear's a loss and then Monday try and hide it from your boss

At your desk job, sat with no power

Yeah, I used to try and make the days go faster with fag breaks, yeah for half an hour

And we grew up being told that actions speak louder than words

But you need cash to act and I'm skint, fractions speak louder than verbs

Yet recently I've had a vicious inkling, that my ship is sinking

In a place where typing out a CV is wishful thinking



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[Verse 3]

So when you're being bored as fuck [?], call a mate, go blaze too

Play tunes of US rap and grime that you love but can't relate to

And we're feeling depressed, we got told to stay in school

That's your secret to success? Fill a CV out and put it on theirr desk? Are they fucking press?

Why'd you think that we give up, yeah, and act crazily slack

We're strewing from the beaten track and sign up for tours of duty in Iraq

Yeah, so you know what these are, small town lad sentiments

Spoken to my Benson ends, false hope that you'll go see sense again



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