| Believe it not I wasn’t always this massive
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| I didn’t haved a beard and I didn’t need glasses
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| I liked to read
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| Secret Seven and The BFG
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| Spider man comic books
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| Heavy metal magazines
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| Whatever, I dug words and we didn’t have a telly mate
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| Jus ran about the place and played
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| Every single lucky day
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| Lucky me
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| I was raised
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| In a valley
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| In Wales
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| Big Lakes
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| Slate mountains
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| Fountains
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| You could hear the echoes of your shouting ringing out for miles
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| Knew all the neighbours round the way they faces was all smiles
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| The nearest town was miles
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| But why should I care?
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| When everything a little kid could want was right there?
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| Frogspawn, long grass
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| Tower, come see man!
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| Tricicle, paddle pool
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| Power fist He Man!
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| Can you believe man
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| I wished those years away
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| Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be like I was back in the day
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| For one day
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| (Chorus) Back in the day I was young
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| I’m not a kid anymore
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| But somedays
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| I wish I was a kid again
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| Back in the day I was young
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| I’m not a kid anymore
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| But somedays
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| I wish I was a kid again
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| But soon school comes
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| And so ends the summertime
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| Unready for a glummer time
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| Initially I’m stunned and I’m
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| Sure shit’ll be just fine but it isn’t
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| The whole process turns your nest into a prison
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| What was is is what is isn’t
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| What you thought was just a dream
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| And What you have to now accept
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| Is that some people will be mean
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| There’s a world that comes between
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| What you’ve thought and you’ve seen
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| If you you’re gonna get on you must now
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| Abandon what you’ve been
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| And become what they say or
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| They will make you pay, oh
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| Each and very day you’re
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| Certified a gayer
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| From that plastic chair you’re sitting in
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| The trousers that you’re shitting in
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| The margins that you’ve written in
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| You’re having trouble fitting in
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| They’ll break your brain if you give em a chance
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| Whether it be 'tacking what you look like or the way you choose to dance
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| If you question for a second then they’ll be blowing down your house
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| But whatver, don’t you ever, don’t you ever shut your mouth, son
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| Putting up a bit of a protest
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| When your mam tries washing you
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| Adam and The Ants outs inherent moshing
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| You’ve no real concept of rock what’s popular
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| You don’t give a gosh if you’ve got no dosh
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| And you don’t get told anything about hiroshima
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| You think you’re the dopest and there ain’t no stopping you
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| And there ain’t no stopping you —
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| Over field, up a wall
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| Doesn’t matter if you fall
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| Anythings possible
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| When you’re small
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| As I recall, I felt far more tall
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| I’m sure I was far more cool
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| And all we had to worry about was, like, woodlice and bug bites
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| Feathers and gobshites
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| Bedtime in daylight
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| In awe of the weather, yeah we’re clever, how:
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| I guess we’ll never be as young as we are right now… |