Jamie T

Wrapped in cling film, staying til the morning Working in a shop off New Bond Street Lived in your building high up on the ceiling When she rushed the floorboards creaked Lost in this town, haunting girl Your calling up my friends Try to find out where...

I was 21 years as I wrote this song I'm 22 now but I won't be for long People ask me "When will you grow up to be a man?" But the girls I loved at school are already pushing prams And I loved you then as I love you still Though I put you on a pedestal they pu...

Mothers talk to you like nothing is better Than you going out on a Tuesday Well I'm not sure what to do But man I swear man I'm slavin' far away An' why is it that always on the weekend, no-one ever about to shout Are people working too hard, or drinking too h...

Take your brother down to the sea, Have two’s on a cigarette. Young sons mozy it happily Learn facts on the soviet A crowded room that holds just three, takes four do you connect? And all this shit means fuck all to me. Long livers in the sunset. So crazy Bil...

God what a mess On the ladder of success Where you take one step And miss the whole first run Dreams, Unfulfilled Graduate unskilled It beats picking cotton And waitin' to be forgotten But we are the sons of no one Bastards of young We are...

I grew up in the in the days 1990's People drunk cans and fought for Tony What were you, what were you coming from? Walking the shoes just to wear 'em out Breaking down is what you're feeling And that's like living: giving way But no-one really understands the...

British Intelligence there on your back And they wont catch no one so they wont catch me 3, 4's and right up your back And you just got sacked now your moneys not free Taking time has never won enough And 3 to the 4 when your really wired To much never, enough...

Bang, where we going, what we doing this night I feel drunk already, maybe my drink got spiked But more like the other like that I’m just a lightweight But I don’t care, man, I been drunk forever I’m sedated Hatred, I’m sedated, pages, I’m sedated Worthwhile s...

You're messing up my mind You do it all the time And that's why enemie's enemies and lovers Will never be friends of mine Speak treat west Like a stain on the chest Of a while collar, Why do I bother Money love hates honour Grates if I look, down I'm a goner...

Alot of people around here lost the whites of their eyes. Think with their head argue with a gut Draft did you leave the door open it might encourage customers in I wish the barmaid shut Look like shit down on my luck Two world wars and one world cup Scream b...

Don't you find some of the time, There is always someone on your mind, That shouldn't be at all In any place or any kind? Don't you find some of the time, There is always someone on your mind, That shouldn't be at all In any place or any kind? She sa...

My old heart it's been 13 hours too much of you my friend my dear and now I cower Looking at you looking at you oh shit shit I'll go cook myself a brew Love it oh sometimes at least I fall Put it up to much to call home sometimes Well I dance the two step loo...

Queens in the pocket girl in a locket say Boys wanna knock it other wanna rob It I see when ya coming girl ya look Stunning running for the friends of mine, Well it's more for the power and the hour After hour well he's itching for the powder One time, well i...

Bottle of wine, and an old 45, rifle in the corner that her grandfather left her when he died, Said no surprise, I’ve had to use it quite a few times, So Jay, don’t you ever let us down, Don’t you ever, I’ll have to shoot you and no one will hear a sound...

Bye bye baby I'll cya later Bye bye baby I'll cya later My man looks like the old Shakin' Stevens He says I resemble like the old Steptoe He sits down slow but quick sniff up the blow Reminisce about beans and how we all do grow And the good man sa...

Bullets Flying over head, Hear them hrough the walls as you lie in bed, Know you're fighting for the one you love, But this time son I'm telling you to run. Lost myself in things I shouldn't do, Came 2 years later to without you, The things l've done and...

If you've got the money I think it would be funny oh ohoh To take your girl, spend a bit of your cash for me! I've been watching you 'Cause then she might be happy No longer lonely oh oh oh And I could take her out the next day for pretty much free! An' all...

If you smile girl i swear i'll dance these tiles I'll give you everything that i got Save on a sovereign and ah what fuck it you can have the whole lot I'm only like joking, i'm much better off win a gamble slot jackpot And dance with the devil on Friday Max s...

she's been hangin out back with the alley cats brother said he's not having it black eyes back these rich kids don't understand what's coming rats on a sinking ship cos its inherited they said it gets them real quick gotta see a lover in another distric...

Taking sides planning a trip, No place like home if only could afford it. Ticket to ride connected by the hip, Surviving on the dabs of the dust in the pocket. Four minute mile dressing down by a friend, You haven't seen in a while, all comes to a head. Wi...

It's flooding over you now, keep your chin up I'm a hurricane Came through the thunder, to drag you under Make you take the blame Remember me forever, I'm the weather My tears are the rain You're drowning together, I hope you're happy Remember my name...

So roll, roll down, rob a railroad train Lil I rob before, dear Jessie James Heart full of love but I'm only here to kill her Fear that the devil may have spoke too soon And ran through the room with a bottle of you Fell down in a chair that was where I...

Nice to meet you boy, I know your momma (knows), I fell in love with her, seven thousand summers ago, I was a runner kid, a too-much-to harbour kid, Your momma helped me out, and now, here to pay the due back, though. Nice to meet you boy, I knew your...

Mama don't smoke, that much dope, don't you worry about me. Mama don't smoke, that much dope, don't you worry about me. I only get high about twice a day it helps to keep my blues away Chris said something about old men Long hair Jesus christ lookalikes...

t's all in a heartbeat, it's all in a whole slow It's just like a fever, pay for nothing at all When it's just like the moon edge Go straight to America Stuck in a barefba, know nothing at all Well I've been in a heartbeat, I got a lot rolling Fe...

Whenever I look out the window, I see her leave Whenever I sleep on the pillow, I hear her breathe Whenever I look back, I can't believe, what a stupid, drunk boy I was to let Mary leave Trade blows with the foes, too young and I grow This skin just doesn...

Phone of the green Brick to the love It's hot in the guts I'm gunna grip to the rail I'm hung and I'm hooked Fixing the sail She sticks a root down on her meagre frame One is the with And one is without Perceiving a ghost I'm gunna stick to the trail...

You were a no-show, down the jivin' disco My momma's at home getting pissed on vino When the kids buy draws but they're smokin' bisto My flow goes straight but it ends illegal And the regal sons get the purest bugel And the bullies only pick on the youn...

I got that feeling you're leaving Now i'm blowing out the smoke up on your ceiling. Ceiling, i seal in (?) Ceiling, i'll see you later later later later Oh my dear would you miss stolen It was bought to the function, the youngest katie? Blame me not,...

Someone help me I heard her scream The old man clutched her chest Said ambulance on the way stay with me And Johnny called said there's been a murder on the green Someone help her It can't be me Standing over her with a gun in my hand I made my baby b...

Sitar singing on the operation, people say they can't walk out I remember you walking in, that's why you got this door lookin' lock stock In the olden days my time seems to be running away, Singing up songs of the rights and wrongs Don't expect anymore from me...

Juveniles, hide your porno mags The girl's got problems at her yard so she's packing up her bags full of rags Her man got down from Po Na Na While the Madre still in the kitchen smokes a 20-deck fags Body bags come back on planes from wartorn Iraq It's the sta...

Sometimes I feel like there's someone in my head Sometimes I feel like there's someone in my head Sometimes I feel like that someone has a name Sometimes I feel that he wants me dead (Peter) (Peter) Peter don't believe in love Peter doesn't like this...

How does it feel to fall to your knees When your feet were dug into the sand Well the rest turned away, said they didn’t like the way You dealt with the matter at hand Live downstairs, on the bottom of your ceiling I vouch for your friend that every...

[Voice-over: Florence Bell] In the square, I waited for you Trick, trick, trick [Jamie T] She's the eye of the storm born in the city I live Her vanity's dressed up as virtue in broke shoes in our schools with tattoos upon the skin She used to make do,...

Sold to a bid then hit by a buyer Lift the lid on a kids took the piss then retire Paris said she get underhand She always let you down when she knows that she can Like a SA80, my baby save me Even played me and jammed in a sand Like a essay, she tried t...

[Jamie] (iy-oh, iy-oh, iy-oh) x8 Rawhide singing on the motorway gonna get to the post office walk in the door, look at the shopkeeper say "hello sonny, where's your poppy? and how much money does he keep in his locky?" well we heard him say and i wal...

Riverbed be soft, be a soft landing Riverbed be soft, be a soft landing Especially for a friend, who committed a sin Where your poppa got really discraced So if this river carries evil away Wonder why you shiver At mistakes you made Guess this ri...

From here to salvador, the ladies dance To fill us reckless sons with passions of the heart I’ve been round this town for so long, she’s been dancing since the first day I’ve been all around but I love coming back to see lucy She swings me over to pull me ou...

Sheila goes out with her mate Stella It gets poured over her fella Cos she says 'man he ain't no better then the next man kicking up fuss', Drunk she stumbles down by a river, screams calling 'London', None of us heard her coming. I guess the carpet weren't ro...

So lonely was the ballad Harmonica man Sam was so knackered after jives of love He puts on the gloves and then puts on his hat Then its home to the missus who sits on his tongue Selfish sons with their packs of cigarettes Forking out two take your girl with th...

They think were fools sitting on the corner, Older you get the more like your father, The more I drink the more like my brother, Seem to have picked up on a callus trait, Hate people who think there life is a drama, Making in jokes about americana, Amusi...

Seems like a heavy load Anti-depressants lessen episodes While the West End boys in their hand-me-down clothes Brag about fights under her street lights She walks alone the long way home And oh she's a troubled soul Oh so troubled but nobody knows. Loo...

When there's no one left to fight boys like him don't shine so bright Soon as I see the dust settle he's out on the town tryin' to find trouble When there's no one left to fight boys like him don't shine so bright Soon as I see the dust settle he's out on t...

Jerry to aisle 5 'Peat, Jerry to frozen foods aisle 5 There's a clean-up needed There's blood on the floor, there's been a suicide Jerry Jerry? Jerr I ain't gotta first line sing for whatever Always in the heart beat a friend of mine New York, New Yo...

Falling through the floor again and never coming back hear a scream and shout again nothing come around he starts a fleeing your you say your checking out Run away together, for whatever, for however, before weather we saw news the kid got shot down We...

Friends in high places Others in cages Tips on races And the bottle full of rum HEY You never will see him From here to river If you do see him He'll be drunken in a cab HEY I'm trying to cut tracks Cus of helpless Smarutans Little Brother sat and...

Stone, glass, concrete & gravel All we got to keep us together Stone, glass, concrete & gravel Underground travel in overcast weather Stone, glass, concrete & gravel All we got to keep us together Stone, glass, concrete & gravel Maybe one day...

This song is one of our first songs off the new album. It's about punks, skins, straights. I was walking along the street Minding my own affair Suddenly two policemen grabbed me And I wasn't aware. They said, "Is your name Matey?" I said, "Why sure". He says,...

There's fire in her eyes in the altercation She blames her poverty on her parents generation She says they sniffed it up their nose now they want our payments Its fucking cold in here, the landlord's tryna make us vagrants And Jacky our whiskey buddy hits...

Between a birth cry And a death will There's just houses So lavish In your anguish I can tell You're chasing your tail Soaked through sheets She didn't die quite right So light up the leader So light up the leader So light a believer To the juggern...

True, you're my true. My hangman trick (trick, trick) (laughs) He'll use the love to keep you here He'll break your heart to make sure that I'm aware Summer times you feel like a trick Like a hangman word that no-one ever gets The tinfoil boy, boy,...

Feel it in my feet Feel it in the heat There's trouble on the street And the trouble starts to move your way now Feel it in the heat Feel it in my feet There's trouble on the street It's not gonna work so move away now Feel the heat Feel the heat on...

You run down the strip, down the strip right through me The rain on the windscreen, blistering the stop sign Turn in the rubies your mother did buy you Through this land I roar You made me bold like a whore, wish I'd never been born Got a good looking co...

Well it's fine you know the son was young and then he started grow up faster Parents wondered what went wrong and then he turned into a little monster Well I didn't expect much more son was a little scaly wag wag wagger can't see much more of a lesser k...

Love she sees apart from me, possessed behind the eyes Apart from the frightening, the moaning and biting, he seemed to be a nice guy And I know what she thinks when she looks at me, when she looks with such despair You're not the only one around here who n...