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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