12.Mile End
We didn't have no where to live, / we didn't have nowhere to go
/ 'til someone said
'I know this place off Burditt Road.' / It was on the fifteenth
floor, / it had
a board across the door. / It took an hour / to pry it off and
get inside. / It smelt as
if someone had died; / the living-room was full of flies, / the
kitchen sink was blocked,
/ the bathroom sink not there at all. / Ooh, / it's a mess
alright, / yes it's / Mile End.
/ And now we're living in the sky! / I'd never thought I'd live
so / high, / just like
Heaven / (if it didn't look like Hell.) / The lift is always
full of piss, / the fifth
floor landing smells of fish / (not just on Friday, / every
single other day.) / Below the
kids come out tonight, / they kick a ball and have a fight / and
maybe shoot somebody if
they lose at pool. / Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's /
Mile End. / [mumbled
mutterings... you love it...]/ Oo-ooh / Nobody wants to be your
friend / 'cause you're
not from round here, / ooh / as if that was / something to be
proud about. / The pearly
king of the Isle of Dogs / feels up children in the bogs. / Down
by the playing fields,
someone sets a car on fire I guess you have to go right down /
before you understand just
how, / how low, / how low a human being can go. / Ooh, / it's a
mess alright, / yes it's
Mile End. / (don't do that! Leave it out!) / Bababa... /
Lalala...
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