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Welcome to Wilderness Hill

from Welcome to Wilderness Hill. (Album 2024) by Hightown Pirates

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Hiding down in Margate on the run from the elite,
With their four by fours, bolted front doors, and their two left feet.
The flower power kids forgot the words to Let it Bleed,
Became the children of the revolution, then grew old consumed by greed.
The summer of love they sang about became our winter of discontent.
All the love letters and poems that they wrote, never got sent.
There’s no angels to protect us, old Nick, he got bad press.
Don’t bother trying to count your blessings ‘cos they’ve robbed the lot and left.
Round our way it’s all Reeboks, top knots, white socks, and sliders.
Universal credit, cheap tobacco, shit drug suppliers.
She left her knickers on the beach, went home in a cab, got home a few hours later
With her bucket, full of crabs.
There’s no angels to protect us, and liars run the press.
Don’t bother trying to count your blessings ‘cos they’ve sold them off and left
They’ll ask million-dollar questions, when they know that we’re down at heel.
They want to tell you how to think but don’t care about how you feel.
My neighbor, he’s on steroids, he’s a really angry man.
The kind of fella who’d put bull-bars, on an ice-cream van.
He’s got tattoos of naked ladies, with breasts bigger than their heads
The names of 3 ex-lovers, all missing presumed dead.
There’s no angels to protect us, and liars run the press.
Don’t bother trying to count your blessings ‘cos they’ve robbed the lot and left
They’ll ask million-dollar questions, when they know that we’re down at heel
They like to tell us how to think, but don’t care about how we feel.

They’ve built luxury flats on our common ground, left us polarized and divided
It seems to me it’s either Love will Tear us Apart,
Or it’s fucking Love Island

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from Welcome to Wilderness Hill. (Album 2024), released January 1, 2024

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