Mowgli - Young lyrics

Bellfield, lost boys, jumping in the nettle patches No shoes, f** rules, running with metal hatchets Several throws, safe to say we got plenty catches Had crazy long hair, way down past our shoulders We didn't touch razors till we were way older Went out the fields to spend an hour with the calfs Stayed past when pat shouted howa at the calfs If I could go back for just an hour and a half I'd be far from sour, like the flower in my gla** Orla's in the kitchen, mixing flower in the batch And we were in the garden, scouring the patch For nasturtiums, or any flower we could catch By this time, mine and my ben's feet were strong feet We learned to rollerblade with 8 feet of concrete No alarms, fields and farms we went running in With warriors in the forest, no gump, go gunning in The hand me downs resulted in anti-frowns Bambi coulda drowned, no matter, we were happy Never had money, fresh bread for our tummies Orla got it done for us cos she's our mammy This the mid nineties, didn't know about rhyming When I was only tiny, and trees were for climbing Walking with the horses, hangin out with Diamond Singing songs we made up, workin on our timing Started primary, seemed scary at first My confidence in a sling, I was wimpy at best I couldn't bring myself to sing simply the best The sympathy from orla, it was simply the best Took time to reflect, grew a neck, turned way round By the time I was five I was fine on the playground I'd be on the boy's side, shouting at the pretty girls Chilling out on little break, living in my little world Special treats on weekends, batman off the deep end On starry nights we'd camp out and we'd sleep them Hindsight's fine but at the time, it wasn't clear then I didn't know that our days there were near their end So we up'd and moved to the shores of brittas bay And we were sure it'd hit us in the sh**est way Leaving our friends and moving all our sh** away Heard the beach was near as we could spit away Felt the gift in it, saw things in a different way We made new friends and kept in touch with old ones Swam on the warm days, ran on the cold ones I had my first girlfriend, we barely even spoke once We kissed at a party, I was stoked as f** Things got hard, she rote me a note and we broke up Got into metal, we would ratchet up the racket I sewed a metallica patch to my black jacket Replayed the black album till it was black out Wallets on chains, baggy jeans were the dress code Only aggie if we couldn't afford fresh bolts May not have been the freshest blokes with the best jokes Heck though, xo to my best bros I was going twelve, sixth cla** in the distance We didn't exactly fit the existing system Just as we were wishing and hoping for something different Orla found us kathya, kathya found us gifted She brought us wisdom, no more bad mixtures Of kack scriptures, half full, gla** pitchers Whack backdrops for badly back lit cla** pictures New chapter, river chapel, cla** in the kitchen Fell for a girl, she didn't fall back reciprocal Still felt bliss every minute I got to sit with her Learned to use our boots in the coup where jens was at Learned to use our hands at the shop where hans was at On the dragon or the tramp was where we banter at Balancing on lats, jumped that, got our balance back Shot bows and slings out in the woods where felix sat Learned to cook by the fire where the steel was at Ate our meals, ran through mill, till our heels were black Toast whole meal on the grill, till our heels were black I could feel the woods, we had the zeal for gra** Don't mean we had good fields by our fields were cla** Leaving that was weak and that but an easy fact Cos we knew that we'd be back in a week or that So many weeks pa**ed and only at a weak glance Could we see that and see that keep lasting Just like a debtor has to pay his creditor soon We had to cut our hair and go back to regular school Wear uniform, do homework, like the regular dudes I couldn't take the test, did my best to be rude Teachers found it hard to get their messages through It was hard for me to become re-accustomed to All the frustration bubbling up and busting through Couldn't handle having my dignity taken So I decided i'd provide a replacement Tried to make myself strong, no one messed with a bad kid I couldn't grab advantages as an average Respect only came when I became savage So I learned to ad-lib, played my part in some bad sh** Got a new cut, went against my gut like bab**h Steady slipping and developing bad habits Stopped grafting in cla**, went ashing by the back pitch They could catch me at break, by lunch i'd be back at it Looking at my act, it was a stab at pragmatic Orla got worried when I came home with my eye swolle Got so angry I put my knuckles through the dry wall Ben kept his head down, not a single thing changed about him I tried to stray, but couldn't find my way without him Unbeknownst to me, I was cooking like joey b I knew that eventually it'd get the best of me Instead of rest in peace I arrested the whole recipe Finally climbed up, and changed my own trajectory Before I got left on a step with nothing left for me I found the people who brought out the best in me Sat nine or ten tests, did my best to get some b's Summer days came around, I spent them restlessly Chest weighted way down, felt pressure intensively Needles to say that summer ended unpleasantly The news broke, doctors coulda been more gentle then Your son might die, did that really need mentioning? Set to cut me open, I was getting penciled in As they went close to my throat, hope was pencil thin Fate chose to smile on this most unfortunate gentleman