The 90's

Album: Rudebox (2006)
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  • Picking up the story from where I left off, it's 1990 now so school can fuck off
    I got no GCSEs, nothing higher than a D,
    I couldn't tell me mum because she'd batter me
    Me and Tate sat on the bowling green, life is a shitter
    We had five quid between us and bought six cans of bitter
    I took me ten Benson home and I smoked through the sorrow
    If I could just avoid me mum maybe I'll tell her tomorrow
    I stumbled through the door and said "Mum, it's like this."
    She said "That man's been on the phone and you've made the list!
    You're in that boy band, son, come and giz a kiss!"
    Phoned up Martin and Rich and carried on getting pissed
    "Boys I don't believe it, I'm gonna be famous!
    Pick you up in a Porsche and buy you lots of trainers."
    I met the other guys, one seemed like a cock
    I think it's gonna be like New Kids on The Block

    I cant be bothered, cause I'm lazy
    I hate those that hate me
    I cant forgive and it's crazy, baby
    Now I'm a video star
    Do you know who you are, baby?

    (I only wanted to get down
    I'm making trouble in this town
    For the five of us)

    I adopted four brothers, some I liked more than others
    One was like a brother from another mother
    But the lead singer made it hard to like him
    But I still loved him, to spite him
    The first three months, you know, I nearly quit
    I played snooker with me dad he said "Don't be a dick!
    Unload the bullets, your mind is a gun,
    You're gonna shoot yourself when they're number one!"

    I cant be bothered, cause I'm lazy
    I hate those that hate me
    I cant forgive and it's crazy, baby
    Now I'm a video star
    Do you know who you are, baby?

    (I only wanted to get down
    I'm making trouble in this town
    For the five of us)

    Now it's dinner with Versace, lunch with Princess Diana
    And I'm gonna get battered if I go out in my manor
    Because as much as we were loved we were also hated
    The boys got jealous cause the girls got plated
    Now we're famous and that, and we're dancing and that
    And I'm thinking "I can sing, Why am I stood at the back?"
    So fuck the band give me Sambuca and gak
    We're all a bag of nerves and not a band of brothers

    I cant be bothered, cause I'm lazy
    I hate those that hate me
    I cant forgive and it's crazy, baby
    Now I'm a video star
    Do you know who you are, baby?

    (I only wanted to get down
    I'm making trouble in this town
    For the five of us)

    And now it's breaking my heart because the dream's turned to shit
    It ain't broke but I'll break it in a little bit
    And I'm always in trouble but I've stopped saying sorry
    Everybody's worried "What the fuck's wrong with Robbie?
    He's not answering his phone, he's not talking to me
    I saw him on the telly at Glastonbury."
    And now I'm running away from everything that I've been
    And I'm pissed and I'm fucked and I'm only nineteen
    I can't conform no more, I can't perform no more
    But the boys know I'm fucked and so they show me the door
    And if truth be told I wasn't fit enough to stay
    So I put my head down and walked away.

    That was the 90s; 90 to 95

    I cant be bothered, cause I'm lazy
    I hate those that hate me
    I cant forgive and it's crazy, baby
    Now I'm a video star
    Do you know who you are, baby?

    (I only wanted to get down
    I'm making trouble in this town
    For the five of us) Writer/s: JERRY CHRISTOPHER MEEHAN, ROBERT PETER WILLIAMS
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , FARRELL MUSIC LIMITED
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