INTRO
G5

VERSE 1

G5
A mile and a half on a bus takes a long time, The odour of old prison food 
                     C5 
takes a long time to pass you by
G5
Day upon day of this wandering gets you down, nobody gives you a chance or a 
          C5
dollar in this old town
G5
Hovering silence from you is a giveaway, squalor and smoke's not your style
                         C5
I don't like this place, We better go
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Then I compare notes with your older sister, I am a lazy get, she is as pure 
       C5
as the cold driven snow

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VERSE 2

G5
What did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?
                                    C5
There was noises, distractions from anything good and the old prison food
G5
Colour my life with the chaos of trouble
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Cause anything's better than posh isolation, I missed the bus, You were laid

on your back
                           D5
With the boy with the arab strap
                           G5
With the boy from the arab strap

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VERSE 3

     G5
It's something to speak of the way you are feeling to crowds there assembled
                          C5
Do you ever feel you have gone too far?
G5
Everyone suffers in silence a burden, the man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton
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The Asian man With his love/hate affair with his racist clientele
  G5
A central location for you is a must as you stagger about making free with 
              C5
your lewd and lascivious boasts
   G5
We all know you are soft because we've all seen you dancing
                                                          C5
We know you are hard because we all saw you drinking from noon until noon again
                               D5
You're the boy with the filthy laugh
                             G5
You're the boy with the arab strap

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VERSE 4

G5
Strapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop
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Comic celebrity takes a back seat as the cigarette catches and sets off the smoke alarm
G5
What do you make of the cool set in London?
                                                   C5
You're constantly updating your hit parade of your ten biggest wanks
                               D5
She's a waitress and she's got style
                                   G5
Sunday bathtime could take a while