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Ma Town
02:48
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My Town
It was hard growing up in my town
It was hard growing up in my town
There was nothing to do
No new people to meet
It was hard growing up in my town
Been working on this floor for twenty years
Been working the same see e machine for twenty years
With no aspirations or any hope or dreams
Because if you don’t dream then you can never fail
And you can’t fall off if you’ve never been on the rails
I think you’d find it pretty hard to understand
That I don’t have the time
And I don’t have the strength to fight
I’m losing my will to get by
And you’re not even listening
You think you’re smarter than me
Because of the way I fucking speak
Well I hope that you fail, your funded PhD
And stop calling me privileged
I grow more bitter year on year
A cloud of anger that never seems to clear
I hate feeling, feelings anyway
So I’ll just drink, snort and fuck them all away
Because I don’t have the time
And I don’t have the strength to fight
I’m losing my will to get by and you’re not even listening
I keep bad company
And I’m sure that you’d agree
There no-one else to blame, here, but me
I know I’m so privileged
But it was hard growing up in my town
It was hard growing up
In my town
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Type A/B
02:46
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Type A/B
You’re a type A and I’m a type B
Let’s get married and we’ll be happy
You get the dishes and I’ll knead the dough
We’ll sit down together and watch Fargo
You take a shower I’ll soak in the bath
I’ll massage those nasty knots in your back
I’ll try to keep tidy when we decorate
But I always end up standing in the the paint
When work gets too much then off we go
We’ll jump on a flight say bye-bye Glasgow
Wake up in the morning say ohaiyo
And sing karaoke down in Tokyo
The old boys at work
Have got this so wrong
They say getting married
Shouldn’t be this fun
They must have married the wrong one
I'll spark a Tennant's and you'll have a gin
We'll play Uno and you will win
I'll make the dinner, you'll feed the cat
Then he'll jump up and fall asleep on your lap
We’ll watch a film maybe Wall-E and
you’ll laugh at me when I start to greet
It’s Saturday night here we fuckin go
We’ll turn the living room into a disco
The old boys at work
Have got this so wrong
They say getting married
Shouldn’t be this fun
They must have married the wrong one
You’re a type A and I’m a type B
And we make a very happy family
You’re a type A and I’m a type B
We’re as happy as we can be
You’re a type A and I’m a type B
Let’s get married and we’ll be happy
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Box
02:24
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Box
There’s a hole in the wall you can get coffee from
There’s a hole in the wall where I lift my money from
And there’s a box in my soul
Where all my troubles call home
I seen a lady with a baby that was so so small
And the man that left that will never see them crawl
There’s a box in my soul
Where all my troubles call home
Keep going, they say
It’s the only logical way
And when tomorrow show its face
Make sure it’s better than it was yesterday
The river in the city might overflow
There’s people jumping in with no place better to go
There’s a box in my soul
Where all my troubles call home
And there’s light at the end of the tunnel they say
But it’s filling with water and I can’t find my way
There’s a box in my soul
Where all my troubles call home
Keep going, they say
It’s the only logical way
And when tomorrow show its face
Make sure it’s better than it was yesterday
Keep going, my love
We’ll keep pushing forward and we’ll never give up
And when tomorrow comes our way
We’ll make sure it’s better than it was yesterday
Please be better than it was yesterday
There’s a hole in the wall you can get coffee from
There’s a hole in the wall where I lift my money from
And there’s a box in my soul
I really hope it stays closed
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Beach
02:22
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Drunk Submarine
02:33
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Sometimes I’m asked to go where other people won’t
Sometimes I’m asked to go where other people won’t
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me today
I want to dig my feet deep in the sand
Closely followed by my head
Don’t have a spade I’ll use my hands so
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me today
I want to sink like a drunk submarine
Because I heard on the seabed
That there’s only pleasant dreams
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me today
Let’s go for a drink we can meet at Stereo
Yea I know the pints are dear
but it’s where all the cool kids go so
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me today
When life, treats
You wrong
Try your best to
Stay strong
When life, treats
Us wrong
We’ll try our best
Just try our best
Some nights I lie in bed
I know I won’t get any rest
I wish I was home instead
No, I don’t want no incidents so
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me
Don’t follow me today
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Dale McPhail Glasgow, UK
Dale is a singer-songwriter, book publisher and firefighter based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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