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Pubs are named kings and queens
And sometimes after flowers
It's daybreak we know what that means
Another twenty-four horrible hours
And the people in the bus-stop queue
Their eyes full of despair
We can't have our cake and eat it all
It isn't bloody fair
It's horrible - it's horrible
But oh what can we do?
It's horrible - it's horrible
It's horrible but true.

The self harmer she licks the blade
Her wounds like shining rubies
The dribbling drunk in the shopping arcade
Shouts "Oi! Darling show us your boobies!"
We're soft as shit - not hard as nails
We're frightened freaks and failures
We're entertained by fairytales
And exposed genitalia
It's horrible - it's horrible But oh what can we do?
It's horrible - it's horrible It's horrible but true.

I bought a bottle and I went home I went to bed and drank it
And I woke up dry as bone Shaking underneath the blanket
A bottle full of rotgut
And I get a little mad
Because the Have-Nots still have not got
What The Haves have always had
It's horrible - it's horrible but oh what can we do?
It's horrible - it's horrible It's horrible but true
I'm horrible - I'm horrible but oh what can I do?
I am horrible - I am horrible
But I'll be true to you.

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from The Worst Is Yet To Come (15 track playlist), released April 15, 2014

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Nigel Burch and the Flea-Pit Orchestra London, UK

'Flea-Pit Music' has been (intoxicating and) invigorating music fans for over a decade. Best described by The Guardian as “a cross between the music of Ian Dury, Brecht and Weil, an Irish pub band and a 1950s skiffle group. Songs of urban alienation with plenty of fierce, spontaneous playing", their original sound is personified by the dark social commentary of Burch's lyrics and vocals. ... more

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