This for all the brothers who had to share a room with older sisters and listen to their Jacqueline Wilson tapes.
lyrics
We all live under various clouds, and in Leicester it rained most of the time,
in Yorkshire where Mum was from it rained even more,
Now in those days we had those old games consoles
me and Hannah, we’d crowd onto this patchwork sofa
and watch Crash Bandicoot die a thousand deaths, yes we weren’t that good.
We had to share a room, she got to choose the tapes.
It was was all teen angst stuff, Jacqueline Wilson, the Illustrated Mum.
Tracy Beaker.
Dad was still with us in those times, but he worked away.
We saw him mostly in the departures lounge,
so between my mum and my sister, I saw myself becoming
the man of the house in those times.
Still, women held up half the sky.
credits
from Jumpers For Goalposts,
released February 28, 2016
Produced by Just Muz
contains samples of 'Fingerprints' by Hiatus Kaiyote
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