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[Verse 1]

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I remember the sickness was forever
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I remember snuff videos
Em7     D
Cold Septembers, the distances we covered
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The fist fights on the beach, the bizzies round us up
           Em7       D
Do it all again next week

An embryonic love
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The first time that it scarred
                       G
Embarrass yourself for someone
       Em7    D
Crying like a child

And the boy who kicked Tom’s head in
      Em7     Cadd9
Still bugs me now
                    G
That’s the thing it lingers
                          D
And claws you when you’re down

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[Verse 2]

I was far too scared to hit him
                         Em7       Cadd9
But I would hit him in a heartbeat now
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That’s the thing with anger
           Em7     D
It begs to stick around

So it can fleece you of your beauty
                         Em7     Cadd9
And leave you spent with nowt to offer
                            G
Makes you hurt the ones who love you
              Em7          D
You hurt them like they’re nothing

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              Em7          D
You hurt them like they’re nothing

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[Verse 3]

See I spent my teens enraged
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Spiralling in silence
                      G
And arm myself with a grin
                     Em7     D
Cos I was always the fuckin’ joker

Buried in the humour
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Amongst the white noise and boys’ boys
                    G
Locker room talkin’ lads’ lads
            Em7             D
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
                               G
Canny chanter but he looks sad
         Em7       D
God, the kid looks so sad

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         Em7       D
God, the kid looks so sad

 
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[Verse 4]

Em7          D
She said the debt, the debt, the debt
                                 Em7
So I thought about shifting gear
            Cadd9
And how she wept and wept and wept
G
Luck came and died round here
Em7      D
I see my mother

DWP see a number
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She cries on the floor encumbered
                    G
I’m seventeen going under
          Em7        D
I’m seventeen going under

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          Em7        D
I’m seventeen going under

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          Em7        D
I’m seventeen going under

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          Em7        D
I’m seventeen going under