Adrenalin

We were in the corner, the Clanduff by the door
On opposite sides of the dance hall, staring across the 
floor
The lights go out, the fists fly in, it's the usual Friday 
scene
Because adrenalin is the strongest drug that there has ever
 been
There's this funny little bloke asking all these questions 
writing down what we say
So we wound him up like a clockwork dog and we watched him 
trotting away
Two weeks later there's a feature in the paper called 
'Britain's Urban Shame'
It's got the teenage thugs of the new estates with our 
photographs and names

So we cut our hair to prove it
And we wore the clothes to prove it
And we armed ourselves to prove it
And we chose our place to prove it
And we danced that way to prove it
And we made ourselves believe it
Until all the world believed it
Until even you believed it

And I was just a little part but I felt the wheels turning
And these are all just little flames but the whole damn 
city's burning
Now that we were famous they watched everything that we did
We were the villains of the neighbourhood, heroes to all 
the kids
And even when that old bloke died we pretended that nothing
 was changed
We just broke the silence with some stupid song and went on
 with the stupid game

Yes, we cut our hair to prove it