| Oh children of the future
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| Conceived in the toilets at Meadowhall
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| To be raised on the cheap cold slabs of garage floors
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| Rolling empty cans down the stairway
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| (don't you love that sound?)
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| Whilst the thoughts of a bad social worker ran through his head
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| Trying to remember what he learnt at training college
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| Lester said he wasn’t allowed in here
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| So why don’t you get lost?
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| And if you grow up
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| Then when you grow up, maybe
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| Maybe you can live
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| Live on Kelvin
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| Yeah you can live in Kelvin
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| On the promenade with the concrete walkways
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| Where pidgeons go to die
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| A woman on the fourteenth floor noticed that the ceiling was bulging as if
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| under a great weight
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| When the council investigated they discovered that the man in the flat above
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| had transported a large
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| Quantity of soil into his living-room, in which several plants he had stolen
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| from a local park were
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| Growing. |
| When questioned, the man said all he wanted was a garden
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| When questioned, the man said all he wanted was a garden
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| Oh God, I think the future’s been fried
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| Deep fried in Kelvin
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| And now it’s rotting behind the remains of a stolen motorbike
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| I haven’t touched it, honest
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| But there isn’t anything else to do
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| We don’t need your sad attempts at social conscience
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| Based on taxi-rides home at night when exhibition opens
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| We just want your car radio
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| And those Reflux speakers
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| Now
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| Suffer the little children to come to me
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| And I will tend their adventure playground splinters with cigarette burns
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| And feed them fizzy orange and chips
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| And then they grow up straight and tall
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| And then they grow up to live
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| On Kelvin
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| Oh yeah
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| We can have ghettos too
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| Only we use air-rifles instead of machine-guns
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| Stitch that
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| And we drunk driving lights
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| In the end
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| The question you have to ask yourself is
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| Are you talking to me
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| Or are you
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| Chewing a brick? |