aimusic.one

[verse 1]
I first took a breath in July 79,
Birthed From a mother still just a kid,
Sent out of town like she’d committed a crime,
No dad to speak of, I’m guessing he wanted rid,
Rotherham to Donny and back again,
Seeds of future resentment already sown,
Always knowing you caused so much shame,
Being born a bastard in an old coal town,
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[verse 2]
“Int he quiet” everyone always said,
It’s funny that ‘cause even then my brain dint shut up,
Never ending noise rattling round my head,
A confused young lad, totally fucked,
Trapped living outside everyone’s lines,
Never really there even when I was around,
Acting how they expected but it was all lies,
Born a bastard in a dying coal town,

Born a bastard,
born a bastard,
born a bastard in a dying coal town!
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[verse 3]
Masked in public, hanging by a thread,
Even then they all still called me weird,
Somedays I’m surprised I’ve not ended up dead,
It’s hard work being looked down on and feared,
I’ll never fit in, just a source of social tension,
I’m king of myself, I just don’t wear a crown,
I doubt I’d cope with the attention,
Being born a bastard in a dead coal town.

Born a bastard,
Born a bastard,
Born a bastard in dead coal town!

I tried my hardest, I did my best,
My mum was always proud, but it was lost on the rest,
I still don’t know, why my brains this way,
Forty four years of it now, what’s one more day?

Born a bastard,
Born a bastard,

Born a neuro-divergent bastard from a dead, old fucking coal town!