The rooms were so much colder then.

[ET Awful]

My father was a soldier then.
And times were very hard.
When I was young.
When I was young.

I smoked my first cigarette at ten.
And for girls, I had a bad yen.
When I was young.

When I was young it was more important.
Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah.
When I was young.
When I was young.

I met my first love at thirteen.
She was brown, and I was pretty green.
And I learned quite a lot.
When I was young.
When I was young.

When I was young it was more important.
Pain more painful, laughter much louder, yeah.
When I was young.
When I was young.

My faith was so much stronger then.
I believed in fellow men.
And I was so much older then.
When I was young.
When I was young.
When I was young.
When I was young.
When I was young.

[roguevalley]

1. WHEN I WAS YOUNG! WHEN I-I-I-I-I WAS YOUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shadu]

2. that is a great song

[skygazer]

3. Oh, we use to dream of living in a corridor!

Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph!

Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.

We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

Cardboard box?

Aye.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

[jdots]

4. WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE !!!!!

if it's the last thing we ever do that band kicked ass

[skygazer]

5. I'm not sure what that's in response to

But okay.......