Pulp - Mile End lyrics

We didn't have no where to live, / we didn't have nowhere to go

'til someone said / "I know this place off Burditt Road."

It was on the fifteenth floor, / it had a board across the door.

It took an hour / to pry it off and get inside. / It smelt as if someone had died;

the living-room was full of flies, / the kitchen sink was blocked,

the bathroom sink not there at all. / Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's

Mile End. / And now we're living in the sky! / I'd never thought I'd live so

high, / just like Heaven / (if it didn't look like Hell.)

The lift is always full of piss, / the fifth floor landing smells of fish

(not just on Friday, / every single other day.)

Below the kids come out tonight, / they kick a ball and have a fight

and maybe shoot somebody if they lose at pool.

Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's / Mile End.

Oo-ooh / Nobody wants to be your friend

'cause you're not from round here, / ooh / as if that was

something to be proud about. / The pearly king of the Isle of Dogs

feels up children in the bogs. / Down by the playing fields,

someone sets a car on fire I guess you have to go right down

before you understand just how, / how low,

how low a human being can go. / Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's

Mile End. / (don't do that! Leave it out!) / Bababa...

Lalala...