āDown By The Streamā from our new album āWhereās my Utopia,ā out now
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When Peter Pullen turned thirteen,
he threw a party in Partington for the whole team,
it was him and me, Jono Steadman, Connor Cartwright, Doug Duggan and Peterās cousin,
Dean.
We wandered off into the woods behind the park with Deanās older brother, Mark,
some cherry cola can bongs down by the stream.
I wore these beige Chinos, swore they were just cream jeans.
Their red eyes, chuckling, when suddenly Jono SCREAMED!
Pellet in his leg, a couple more shots whizzed past,
felt fast, probably not, just the shock of the shots,
still, we ducked behind some rocks,
we crawled through the dead leaves and the moss,
up the path, we ran all the way back
and didnāt let up till we got past the bus stop near Joannaās house.
Bill popped the pellet out with a hot box cutter.
Jono didnāt cry at all, he didnāt even stutter.
Jono was alright, Jono was a good guy,
I think his dad came over from somewhere else or summat some time in 85 or 86, or maybe
he was from Milton Keynes
I canāt really rememberā¦
but his dad was different to ours
and Jono had been deaf till he was four
because he had this weird was build up in his ears.
and he spoke a little slow and I was a prick about it, and I bullied him becauseā¦
well, donāt know why but I did and Iāve gotta live with it.
Maybe it was just kids being kids
or maybe just my inner ape baring its teeth.
Butā¦ I got picked on tooā¦
I was a prick, sure, but I was just insecure
and who gets to decide whatās being snide
and whatās just giving you what youāre good for?
We were all good in the end though I think.
He never held it against me,
we ended up at the same parties when we hit sixteen,
sharing cheap pills that werenāt that strong,
but lasted long enough to take the edge off life getting too real,to take the edge of life getting just that little bit more wrong.
And then the sharks started circling and the nights get longer.
Jono, I never said SORRY to your face, so Iāll say it in this song.
I was young, but more so I was wrong, and know this.
If my own son had been picking on someone,
well, when he came home from school,
Iād grab that little fucker by his rucksack
and pin him up to the wall,
and scream in his face
until he could never make another person feel shitty at all.
Because they picked on me too,
so I know the pain never really goes away.
It just finds new places to hide inside the darkest nooks and crannies of your brain.
Again and again, it surprises you every time you find it.
That old cycle of abuse.
He did it to me, so Iāll do it to you,
but thereās no margin for error in this world
and so thereās absolutely no excuse.
Though the fibres of our very being are frayed to the point of exhaustion for a bit of harmless
fun.
Jesus Christ, I never meant to hurt anyone.
@solomonortega8646
1 month ago
"Because they picked on me too, so I know the pain never really goes away. It just finds new places to hide inside the darkest nooks and crannies of your brain. Again and again, it surprises you every time you find it. That old cycle of abuse. He did it to me, so Iāll do it to you, but thereās no margin for error in this world and so thereās absolutely no excuse. Though the fibres of our very being are frayed to the point of exhaustion for a bit of harmless fun." Those lines hit so damn hard.
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