Tiger Lillie - Soho news
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Skinheads in the doorway
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Get their heads kicked in
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Full of drugs and racism
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Now it’s getting grim
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A clip joint bouncer
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Beats them to a pulp
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And leaves them in the gutter
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On their blood to gulp
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Well Jimmy my slum landlord
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Comes round for the rent
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Well Jackie who he pimps for
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Her money he has spent
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Well there’s junkies in the toilet
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And the front door’s been kicked down
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Mr rent boy neighbours
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Well they go up and down
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Well a man from a northern town
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He goes steaming in
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Someone stole his sixty pounds
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So now he does him in
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Well a piano bar bouncer
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Goes to the person’s defence
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Stealing money for his fix
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Well that was the offence
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Up the road a clipper
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Gets stabbed through the heart
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She tried to rip off a psychopath
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And now pays for her art
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I saw her standing in the rain
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On a Sunday afternoon
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I looked into her eyes
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And I knew that she was doomed
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