Darwenism from Darwenism by Benefit Cheat$

I come from down in the valley
From I was six til I was sweet sixteen
When your back's against the wall
If they bring you up at all
You can bet your life they bring you up mean

We didn't have no airs and graces
We didn't have no colour TV's
We had bottles and stones
And we broke our own bones
Chucking rocks and sticks and climbing up trees

And the world didn't touch us at all
Still waiting for our heads to get small
We're a taxanomic magic 8 ball
That's Darwenism

We had Smez and Smyth on Panorama
Preaching monoculturality
They had Crombie overcoats
And Dr Marten's boots
And a whiff of criminality

We'd be playing footie on the top field
And we see them getting of the bus
And they didn't mind at all
If they didn't have the ball
Cos it meant that they could kick one of us

And the world didn't touch us at all
Still waiting for our heads to get small
We're a taxanomic magic 8 ball
That's Darwenism

Crummy's dad he sold the papers
But the shop on the way to school
Sold single number 10's
You'd get 2 for 4 pence
And we'd smoke them up the backs to look cool

Starting Friday night at Peepers
Then down The Vulcan for a pint or two
We were barely 15
But you could fill up the world
With all the things the we thought we knew

And the names and the faces have changed
But I've watched our children doing the same
And none of us are taking the blame
For Darwenism

We don't care what you think that you've heard
About it ain't the smartest place in the world
We won't let you say a bad word
About Darwenism

And the world didn't touch us at all
Still waiting for our heads to get small
We're a taxanomic magic 8 ball
That's Darwenism

Oh what mattered to you it never mattered to me
Oh what mattered to you it never mattered to me
Oh what mattered to you it never mattered to me
Oh what mattered to you it never mattered
it never mattered
it never mattered to me

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