Picking up the story

from where I left off

It's 1990 now

So school can fu.ck off

I got no GCSEs,

nothing higher than a 'D'

I couldn't tell me Mum

because she'd batter me

Me and Tate sat on the bowling green

Life was a sh.itter

We had five quid between us

And bought us six cans of bitter

I took me ten Benson home

And I smoked through the sorrow

If I could just avoid me Mum

Maybe I'd tell her tomorrow

I stumbled through the door

I said Mum it's like this

She said "That man's been on the phone

And you've made the list

You're in that boy band son

Come and giz' us a kiss"

Phoned up Martin and Rich

And carried on getting pissed

Boys I don't believe it

I'm gonna be famous

Pick you up in a Porsche

and buy you lots of trainers

I met the other guys

one seemed like a cock

I think it's going to be like New Kids On The Block

I can't be bothered 'cause I'm lazy

(I only wanted to get down)

I hate those that hate me

I can't forgive and it's crazy

Baby

Now I'm a video star

(I'm making trouble in this town)

Do you know who you are?

(For the five of us)

Baby

I adopted four brothers,

Some I liked more than others

One was like a brother from another mother

But the lead singer made it hard to like him

And I still loved him

despite him

The first three months

you know I nearly quit

I played snooker with my Dad

he said "Don't be a dick

Unload the bullets

you're mind is a gun

You're gonna shoot yourself when they're number one"

I can't be bothered 'cause I'm lazy

(I only wanted to get down)

I hate those that hate me

I can't forgive and it's crazy

Baby

Now I'm a video star

(I'm making trouble in this town)

Do you know who you are

(For the five of us)

Baby

Now it's dinner with Versace

And lunch with Princess Diana

And I'm gonna get belted if I go out of my manor

Cause as much as we were loved

We were also hated

The boys got jealous

Cause the girls got plated

And now we're famous and that

and we're dancing and that

And I'm thinking I can sing

why am I stood at the back

So fu.ck the band

give me Sambuka and gak

Now we're all a bag of nerves

Were not a band of brothers

I can't be bothered 'cause I'm lazy

(I only wanted to get down)

I hate those that hate me

I can't forgive and it's crazy

Baby

Now I'm a video star

(I'm making trouble in this town)

Do you know who you are?

(For the five of us)

Baby

And now it's breaking my heart

because the dream's turned to sh.it

It ain't broke but I'll break it in a little bit

And I'm always in trouble

but I've stopped saying sorry

Everybody's worried

What the fu.ck's wrong with Robbie

He's not answering his phone

He's not talking to me

I saw him on the telly at Glastonbury

And now I'm running away

from everything that I've been

And I'm pissed and I'm fu.cked

and I'm only nineteen

I can't conform no more

I can't perform no more

But the boys know I'm fu.cked

and so they show me the door

And if the truth be told

I wasn't fit enough to stay

So I put my head down

and walked away

That was the 90's

90 to 95

I can't be bothered 'cause I'm lazy

(I only wanted to get down)

I hate those that hate me

I can't forgive and it's crazy

Baby

Now I'm a video star

(I'm making trouble in this town)

Do you know who you are

(For the five of us)

Baby