Andy Bell - The Slums We Loved lyrics

[Verse 1] The slums we love the slums their songs By all to whom they were not home The streets we made the streets we roam Can't stand romance on cobbled stones Where we sipped to our first taste of life Kissed our first love [?] good night Where we were born and fought and died Learned to look bullies in the eye Where we faced our [?] gossips Screamed Ed Burundi [?] stop it Stepped over [?] tossed with Mobs Who looked divine but played the part [Verse 2] [?] five of us out pockets (b**h) While pimps pulled dons out of sockets On the wastelands by the gas lords Lust and testosterone drove bizarre The facts remain no longer out of work Who insist their kids are see and not heard So come every family man who every payday Heads for the street to release of getting laid With a touched courage of a mild [?] Crossed over the street to the second home About to stake the remnants of their burning and straight up A bottle [?] in the darkness To whom once they've come, they say thanks love Always thanks lust And I filled my hand back with their cash Paid for shagging what they think might gash To escape that town and now looking back We were the sinking ship that gave s**er to the rats [Verse 3] When the street lamps flicker in to lights Nothing's compared the shine on the sub flicked lights Scooters rolled down to the coffee bar At the end of the old high [?] Rival gangs would scope each other out Waiting either to be held or call retreat And we, we too couldn't wait to leave We were not part of any heard We brilliant loners we shameless flats Amidst the sh**s we shine in turds To whom it was then chose to use We're all saints of verbal abuse And looking back we both think F**k you only F**k you The slums we loved the slums we loved The slums their songs The slums we loved the slums we loved The slums their songs