Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Liverpool, artist - Akira the Don. Album song When We Were Young, in the genre Альтернатива
Date of issue: 15.11.2006
Record label: Something In Construction
Song language: English
Liverpool |
Morning of my fifteenth birthday |
Shoplifting celebratory sweets from Safeway |
No sooner have I left the supermarket |
I get collared |
Secret door, upstairs, check out my image on the multiple screens |
The manager’s mean — calls the police to the scene |
I come clean — to no avail |
Legs between my tail |
The handcuffs hurt but I remember not to wail |
Then to the pig pen |
With a pair of big men |
Humiliation |
Lying on a blue mat |
It’s juts like PE — but much rougher |
Third time here and I’m still not much tougher |
Watch me suffer |
Till about midday |
When the Head Of Year’s here and I’m on my way |
Hey! |
Three hours late for my art GCSE |
My cheeks burn red as the other kids stare at my |
My Auntie Lexy’s boyfriend the art teacher glares at me |
Feels like nobody cares for me |
I think carefully |
I’m like, damn |
Terrified of going back home to my Dad and my Mam |
I’d only just regained their trust, understand |
That’s when I formulate a plan |
At the end of the day, hey, I’m gonna run away |
It’s not that I wanna, I’m a gonner if I stay |
So I polish off that red letter box |
Then I’m off out of school |
Doobleanga down to Bangor station hit the first train to Liverpool |
I’m like, fuck it |
Seven pound thirty in my pocket |
The ticket costs five pound something so that doesn’t leave much from the deal |
So on arrival I’m a steal a meal |
And a bible |
Yo! |
Don’t think I’ve ever been to Liverpoool before |
But I’m OK on my own |
Wandering alone |
Blood Brothers is on and I’ve a plan to get a job |
In the Burger King and rent a bedsit |
Maybe next week |
First though I’ve gotta find a place to sleep |
I walk the streets |
Meet — whores, randoms, children, finally find an abandoned building |
Break in through a broken window |
I step inside, smells like somebody died |
Climb up these rickety stairs to find |
Someone’d already been there |
Needles and porn everywhere |
Clumps of hair and a blanket, smashed glass, blood, and a tooth |
Plus the place didn’t have a roof |
I curl up in a ball on the ground |
Dream as the rain falls down |
Wake up, shivering, shuddering |
Just in the middle of dreaming about what could have been |
Should have been blowing out candles |
Should have been opening bangles |
Instead I’ve been moping with vandals |
Coping with thinking |
Soaked to the bone and I’m stinking |
Have a little moan then an inkling |
How I can have a shower, like — cool! |
Walk for about a half an hour then I find a swimming pool |
In Liverpool — I rule! |
No need to fool the lady at reception |
No deception in my conversation, I just mention my situation |
And the girl’s like |
Hey kid, you can have a shower for free |
Here’s some shampoo and a towel, you don’t have to thank me |
So I wash, then I scuttle off, ashamed of myself |
Into town where I steal myself some breakfast off the shop shelf |
M & S, concerned about my dress so I plan to steal some trousers and a shirt |
This one’s covered in dirt |
But that won’t hurt for the present |
I scrawl «homeless» on some paper, sit my ass down on the pavement |
And it’s not pleasant begging |
But some people seem to feel sorry for me sitting on the ground |
One lovely lady gives me twenty pounds, a note |
I practically gloat |
Gather up my coat, and the paper that I wrote homeless on |
Then on the W.H. |
Smiths, I steal some books, some graphic novels and some comics |
And I spend the afternoon in Maccy D’s |
Drinking milk shake, reading Spiderman and Tank Girl |
And the former gives me my new name |
Ben Riley |
I figure that I’ll shave my head, and maybe one day I’ll do Kylie |
Yeah I’m wiley and I’m optimistic, but here’s the piss take |
They kick me out of Maccy D’s |
And bugger me, it’s freezing |
So I find myself a pub, in there I buy myself a coke |
I sit down at the back and I take of my steaming coat |
The landlord and the regulars they seem to share a joke |
They all laughing in my direction as I’m scheming and I hope they fucking choke |
And die, I start to fucking cry |
A wrinkly old lady wonders, and she asks me why |
Pick up my steaming coat, and streaming eyes I run outside |
Past some children to my building |
I curl up on the ground and lie |
As it was, I didn’t last that long in Liverpool |
And that’s because I made a phonecall to a friend from school |
No sooner had a I hung up, than a wagon pulled up |
Shouted «ADAM!» |
and I turned around, a pair of coppers ran me down |
I said, «my name’s Ben Riley», but they didn’t believe it |
Drove me back to the station where I played to Jesus |
And for a few hours, impatiently I waited |
For my folks to drive from Anglesey to Liverpool to strangle me |
I was as scared as I’d ever been |
But my Mam and Dad cared, so I shouldn’t have been |
And that’s the thing |
Published by BMG Music Publishing. |
Lyrics reprinted with permission |