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Up the Junction

In the style of

Squeeze

Lyrics

i never thought
it would happen

with me and the girl
from clapham

out on a windy common

that night i ain't forgotten

when she dealt out the rations
with some or other passions

i said you are a lady
perhaps she said i may be

we moved into a basement
with thoughts

of our engagement

we stayed in by the telly

although the room was smelly

we spent our time just kissing
the railway arms

we're missing

but love had got us hooked up
and all our time

it took up

i got a job with stanley
he said i'd come in handy

and started me on monday
so i had a bath on sunday

i worked eleven hours
and bought

the girl some flowers

she said she'd seen a doctor
and nothing now

could stop her

i worked all through the winter
the weather brass and bitter

i put away a tenner
each week to make her better

and when the time was ready
we had to sell the telly

late evenings by the fire
with little kicks inside her

this morning at four fifty
i took her rather nifty

down to an incubator
where thirty minutes later

she gave birth to a daughter

within a year a walker

she looked
just like her mother

if there could be another

and now she's two years older
her mother's with a soldier

she left me when my drinking
became a proper stinging

the devil came and took me

from bar to street to bookie

no more nights by the telly
no more nights

nappies smelling

alone here in the kitchen
i feel

there's something missing

i'd beg for some forgiveness

but begging's not my business

and she won't write a letter
although i always tell her

and so it's my assumption
i'm really up the junction

Details

• Duration : 3:12
• Key : E
• Genre : Pop
• Year released : 1979
• Language : English

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