I never thought it would happen

With me and the girl from clapham

Out on a windy common

That night I aint forgotten

When she dealt out the rations

With some or other passions

I said you are a lady

Perhaps she said I may be

We moved into a basement

With thoughts of our engagement

We stayed in by the telly

Although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissing

The railway arms were missing

But love had got us hooked up

And all our time it took up

 

I got a job with stanley

He said Id come in handy

And started me on monday

So I had a bath on sunday

I worked eleven hours

And bought the girl some flowers

She said shed seen a doctor

And nothing now could stop her

 

I worked all through the winter

The weather brass and bitter

I put away a tenner

Each week to make her better

And when the time was ready

We had to sell the telly

Late evenings by the fire

With little kicks inside her

 

This morning at 4:50

I took her rather nifty

Down to an incubator

Where thirty minutes later

She gave birth to a daughter

Within a year a walker

She looked just like her mother

If there could be another

 

And now shes two years older

Her mothers with a soldier

She left me when my drinking

Became a proper stinging

The devil came and took me

From bar to street to bookie

No more nights by the telly

No more nights nappies smelling

 

Alone here in the kitchen

I feel theres something missing

Id beg for some forgiveness

But beggings not my business

And she wont write a letter

Although I always tell her

And so its my assumption

Im really up the junction

 

^What a song^

 

As you can tell this thread is for the brilliance of English Rock band Squeeze which are often forgotten about :(

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze

i'm not going to lie, the only reason i know of this song is ben gibbard covered it :blush:

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TzW94QcEIpU

Quite a few bands have covered Up The Junction

They do it down on camber sands

They do it at Waikiki

Lazing about the beach all day,

At night the crickets creepy

Squinting faces at the sky

A Harold Robbins paperback

Surfers drop their boards and dry

And everybody wants a hat

But behind the Chalet

My holiday's complete

And I feel like William Tell

Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet

Pulling mussels from a shell

 

Shrinking in the sea so cold

Topless ladies look away

A he-man in a sudden shower

Shelters from the rain

You wish you had a motor boat

To pose around the harbour bar

And when the sun goes off to bed

You hook it up behind the car

 

Two fat ladies window shop

Something for the mantelpiece

In for bingo all the nines

A panda for sweet little niece

The coach drivers stand about

Looking at a local map

About the boy he's gone away

Down to next door's caravan

The Travis version of that song is very neat.

wait, is this the band squeeze?

Yes, you might not know them as they never really made it big in America

i know two songs by them: tempted and pulling mussels. They're really good, but thats all i know

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pehHNJWKf3g&feature=related]YouTube - Squeeze - Cool For Cats[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAY9Vyo0g0A&feature=related]YouTube - Squeeze - Is That Love?[/ame]

i saw squeeze 18 years ago and i will never forget it, tempted is a very special song to me, yes i was only two (kidding) at the time