Time For Heroes

Album: Up The Bracket (2002)
Charted: 20
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  • Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?
    Shoveled up like muck and set the night on fire
    Wombles bleed, truncheons and shields
    You know I cherish you, my love

    But there's a rumour spread nasty disease around town
    You caught round the houses with your trousers down
    A head rush in the bush
    You know I cherish you, my love
    Oh, how I cherish you, my love

    Tell me what can you want now you've got it all
    The whole scene is obscene
    Time will strip it away
    A year and a day
    And Bill Bones
    Bill Bones knows what I mean
    He knows it's eating, it's chewing me up
    It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
    And it's all
    It's all in my hands
    And it's all up the walls

    Well the stale chips are up and the hope stakes are down
    It's all these ignorant faces that bring this town down
    And I sighed and sunken with pride
    Well, I passed myself down on my knees
    Yes, I passed myself down on my knees

    Now tell me what can you want now you've got it all
    The whole scene is obscene
    Time will strip it away
    A year and a day
    And Bill Bones
    Bill Bones knows what I mean
    He knows there's fewer more distressing sights than that
    Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
    And we'll die in the class we were born
    But that's a class of our own, my love
    A class of our own, my love

    Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?
    Shoveled up like muck
    Set the night on fire
    Wombles bleed, truncheons and shields
    You know I cherish you, my love
    Yeah, I cherish you, my love Writer/s: Carl Barât, Peter Doherty
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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