The Jam

Life is timeless, days are long when you’re young You used to fall in love with everyone Any guitar and any bass drum Life is a drink and you get drunk when you’re young Life is new and there’s things to be done You can’t wait to be grown up Acceptance into the capital world…

It’s not important for you to know my name Nor i to know yours If we communicate for two minutes only It will be enough For knowing that someone in this world Feels as desperate as me And what you give is what you get It doesn’t matter if we never meet again What we…

Sup up your beer and collect your fags There’s a row going on down near slough Get out your mat and pray to the west I’ll get out mine and pray for myself Thought you were smart when you took them on But you didn’t take a peep in their artillery room All that rugby…

The distant echo – Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains To take them home to The ones that they love and who love them forever The glazed, dirty steps – repeat my own and reflect my thoughts Cold and uninviting, partially naked Except for toffee wrapers and this morning’s papers Mr. jones got run down…