[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:14.21]I smoked Consulates and Park Drive, drank Nookie Brown [00:18.34]Learned how to skive [00:19.62]Polo mints to hide my breath from my mum [00:21.12]Did a little weed cuz it felt like fun [00:23.02]Did a little bit of speed if my friend had some [00:25.03]Nicked Volkswagen badges I'm a Beastie Boys son [00:27.19]Me so horny, me so young and I still get my washing done [00:31.94]Auntie Joe died of cancer God didn't have an answer [00:35.40]Rhythm was a dancer [00:36.62]Any room for a chancer? That's me in the corner, thanks sir! [00:40.49]I wore a troop track suit, British Nike shoes, Kangol hat like LL Cool's [00:45.05]Before I was 'avin it, 'avin it large [00:47.13]They nicked the BMX from out my garage [00:49.03]Knew it was Tier from off the estate cuz every time he'd see me, he'd smile like we were mates [00:53.57]From then on in I'd have to walk to me Nan's [00:57.32]And I'd dream my dreams through a sea of prams [00:58.47]Like a hooligan on the football stands [00:59.93]And I'd throw the v's to Leeds and West Ham [01:01.96]Then I ran, I ran so far away down Scotia Road to a taxi bay [01:06.95]Then I ran again cuz I couldn't pay, a Muslim didn't get his fare that day [01:12.09]I apologise today [01:14.73] [01:16.12]Things are better when they start [01:23.86]That's how the 80s broke my heart [01:30.10] [01:32.42]And who are you calling poof? You like Wham, man, I hate that stuff [01:37.74]And then my grandad died and left a hole in the family and lots of women had to nanny me [01:41.33]School was a laugh, they didn't have ADD, thick was the term they used for me [01:46.04](over and over) [01:46.94]Repeatedly [01:47.74](over and over) [01:49.13] [01:49.82]Take my breath away take my breath away [01:52.20]Bidly bidly bidly bong [01:54.11]Pass it on the left hand side, right turn, Clyde [01:54.97] [01:57.47]That girl in the fourth year, got pregnant and she was raised Catholic, brilliant! [02:04.17]I cried, she cried, we cried, her youth died [02:07.22]Drank cider in the cemetery [02:10.48]The year above us had discovered E and I said it weren't for me [02:17.49]?12.50? I could rob me mum's purse and buy one off chalcky [02:23.68]Met a girl on Monday, drank fizzy pop on Tuesday [02:26.02]Fingered her on Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday and on Saturday [02:27.17]Dumped by Sunday [02:28.28] [02:29.06]Things are better when they start [02:34.42]That's how the 80s broke my heart [02:43.33]The wonder years, I've played my part [02:50.64]That's how the 80s broke my heart [02:58.64] [02:58.91]Like I said, I lost my virginity to a girl called Anne-Marie, well she said she fancied me [03:03.96]And then she said "fuck me" and I thought 'fuck me, I'm all talk and it'll be over too quickly' [03:08.24]And it was but I couldn't care less, I'd seen a girl's part,made a mess on her dress, oh yes! [03:12.59]You're now rocking with the best, second person in my year that had seen a breast [03:17.12]I'm in my 30s now and I'm still impressed [03:19.66]Where are the Flawclands mum? And what have they done? [03:21.98]Where do girls come from? Where do girls come from? Where do girls come from? [03:25.21] [03:25.60]It's the 80s, what you looking at, ya mong? [03:29.91]So young, so long, so young, so long [03:43.28]Too short, so long [03:51.71]What you looking at ya mong? [03:56.40]Too short, so long, too short, so long [04:04.01]So long. [04:06.84]