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about
Bleak St started as a poem and was written about a typical suburban high street. During lockdown I was forced to stay within the confines of my West London hometown and as such I couldn't escape the sheer boredom and lack of opportunity that seems to pervade small provincial English towns. It's that street where people hold Starbucks cups like they are a badge of honour sipping on sugary sweet concoctions mislabelled as coffee. Young kids dismantle tennis nets and deface local amenities while boy racers seem to be eternal Peter Pan's riding around in Ford escorts. Their world revolves around the invisible walls that keeps them chained to innocuous concerns and baseless gossip. It's an incestuous pit where dreams are stifled and creativity has strict limits and conventions. The weather is a hot topic and the pubs are fiercely territorial. This is Bleak St.
lyrics
That's not a coffee, that's a meal
stop trying to reinvent the wheel
this is bleak st, usual suspects, quick to deflect
smashed glass, well it's all on the public footpath
hackneyed swings and scribbled discontent
11 a side goals, waterlogged pitch, crossbar bent
tennis court, drop short, double fault and someone's come and nicked the net
and you haven't really grown up yet
funfair rides a death trip, ghost train runs from the middle of town out to nowhere
Well this is Bleak st
it's cold and grey
Well this is Bleak st
can't wait to get away
Well this is Bleak st
opportunities slip away
oh this is Bleak st
oh this is Bleaaak st
Well this is bleak st, small town bravvado
outside of this place no one knows who the fuck you are though
this is bleak st, take a stroll
oh this is bleak st, impossibly dull
oh this is bleak st, deflated tyres
bleak st, full of climate change deniers
this is bleak st, busybodies, bleak st, shopping trolleys
bleak st, like watching paint dry
bleak st, suits and ties, parking tickets, small minds and parking fines
oh this is Bleak st, its cold and grey
oh this is Bleak st, can't wait to get away
oh this is Bleak st, cold and grey
oh this is Bleak st, can't wait to get away
oh this is Bleak st, Charles Dickens territory
oh this bleak st
oh this is Bleak st, dogshit
oh this is Bleak st, you wanna leg it
oh this is Bleak st, a one way street
oh this is Bleaaaaak st, a one way street
oh this is bleak st, small town gossip
this is bleak st, sit on the boat but don't rock it
this is bleak st, this is bleak st
oh this bleak st, leave your message after the bleep
because no one gives a fuck
beeeeep
Bleak st, beeeep
wooooooo, it's rather bleak
weather forecast, light drizzle, rain, what else did you expect?
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