14 Up

from CPR024-On File "The Real Mc Oi!" LP by Common People Records

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We were all in gangs
now we don't give a damn
That will be with you all your life
We broke the rules nobody's fools
Hated all who weren't on our side

14 up in a tower block,
The next one was my view
Then one day I realised
There must be something else to do
Chasing birds for a screw
Half my mates on the glue
There nothing for us to do

Thought it was top
getting chased from the cops
Little did we know they knew our names
When we got home a boot up the arse
From your old man, kept in again

14 up in a tower block,
The next one was my view
Then one day I realised
My dad he knew the score
He'd been round the block before
He was older and wiser
and more of a man than me

One more drink, one more fight
One day we might see the light
One more day, one more night
One more drink, one more fight

Times have changed the fight has gone
The drugs kicked in the place went down
Got out while the going was good
Headed off to another part of town

14 up in a tower block,
the next one was my view
Then one day I realised,
All my mates were dead
The birds, they all got wed
A mortgage and a couple of kids
That's just the way life is oh, oh, oh!

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from CPR024-On File "The Real Mc Oi!" LP, released December 1, 2018

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