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Marshall Law
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Kate Tempest
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Everywhere is monsters
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Tits out, wet-mouthed, heads back
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Shouting and screaming just to prove they exist
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Becky's at the bar with the usual mix
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Of decadent fabrics and desolate lighting
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Everybody here has got a hyphenated second name
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Blowing more breeze
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Than the wind at the weather vane
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Industry slimeballs, showbiz big-deals
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The cool new band with the retro feel
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It's the wrap party for their video
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Becky danced in it
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The director, Marshall Law
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Head to toe in yellow velour
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Is holding court about the science of image
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While the sycophants giggle and grimace
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Becky fidgets, tells herself
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'Must stop being so cynical
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Everybody here is a human
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Even these pitiful posturing pop stars and idiots.'
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She tells herself to look again -
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Nothing is hideous
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So while Marshall Law is wanking on about his artwork
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She smiles at the guy opposite
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Bright eyes, dark shirt
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He raises his eyebrows in the direction of Marshall
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'My name's Becky,' she says
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'What's yours?'
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She was like nothing that he'd seen before
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Strong body, soft edges, with something so raw
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In the core of her iris
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He said his name, 'Harry'
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And never in his life had he felt so happy
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They got talking
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Free bar. Exhausting decorum
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He drank until she was so absorbing
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He blanked out the party
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The floor spun, he stared at her face and felt sure
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Something was happening here
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He was kinda nervous
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His eyes kept doing circuits of the room
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He drank as fast as they could serve him
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Then this dude comes over
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Sticks out a thick hand
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And Harry looks at her
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Like he's just found himself in quicksand
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He gives this guy a wrap, they shake hands
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Sweaty cash passed between palms
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No fuss. Bish bash, yes, bosh
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He looked at her guiltily
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She waved it off, smiling
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'You a shotter then, right?
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I don't care.'
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'Becky, all I ever wanted was a place of my own.'
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His eyes, wide and trusting
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He's staring at her, desperate for something to click
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He is opening up. This is it
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'A real classy place, the whole bit
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Like a speakeasy, right?
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Chandeliers and lights
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That shine off of the glasses
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No hype, and no arseholes
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Instead of rotting our guts out
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In shitty old boozers
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We can be grown men, listening to music
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Real music. Played with heart by real bands
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Not just posers looking like they're
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Giving blowjobs to mic stands
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And I'll be in a waistcoat, dead grand
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Harry's Place
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Or, at least, that's the plan.'
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She was half listening
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Half not listening
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Kept getting distracted by the lights flickering
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He looks like an outline that needs filling in
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He leans in close, starts whispering:
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'The thing is, and it's weird
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I never felt so able
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To talk like this to anybody, ever
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Recently Becky, I've been really feeling the pressure
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I can't tell you how good it is
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To get this off my chest.'
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Becky's holding tight to her glass
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Good coke, brain fast
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She watches his face as he talks
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Little bump on her fingertips
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Expert. Quick snort
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Sucking on a cigarette, feeling vaguely bored
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It's true if you believe it
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The world is the world
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But it's all how you see it
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One man's flash of lightning ripping through the air
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Is another's passing glare, hardly there
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It's true if you believe it
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The world is the world
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But it's all how you see it
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One man's flash of lightning ripping through the air
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Is another's passing glare, hardly there
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'If I'm being honest, well it is
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It's like a trap
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I ain't trying to be flash
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I just need to raise the cash for the dream
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I hardly touch it myself
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Look, it ain't that
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But once I set myself a task
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Well, there ain't no going back
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And I am halfway there
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I am, nearly, anyway
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The point is
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I kinda had to push all of my friends away
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I can't have nobody
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Knowing what I'm up to
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I keep it very secret but the thing is
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I would love to
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Just for one day
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You know, live like any other guy
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I can't have a girlfriend, you see
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'Cause I don't like to lie
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It's safer all round
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That I just keep my head down
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And, yeah, the business is booming
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Yeah, the business is really booming
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But my family think I work in recruitment
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So, I get up every morning
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And I put a shirt and suit on
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And I get on a train, I go up town
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It's all professional users
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I sell in the boardrooms and not the boozers
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To, like, CEOs and these modern day Scrooges
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Who get their secretaries to bring me coffee
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It's so stupid
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Meant to be hard times, right, a recession?
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But these guys are buying more than ever, I reckon
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And I...
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He's got nice eyes
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Shame about his issues, though
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The party pushes on, her cynicism's getting vicious
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Show nothing
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Keep smiling
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She catches the eye of her mates
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They're dancing by the bar
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They're in a state
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Nod for 'save me'
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They understand, dance over
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Put their arms around her shoulders -
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'Becky, we're bored, let's go'
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His mouth slows to a stop
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He seems to lose his composure
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She smiles at him
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'Yeah, was nice getting to know ya.'
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No, not like that, don't leave
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Please
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Don't make her go, we've just got started
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Their teeth are bare, their feet are planted
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Their smirking at him like he's dirt
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And now his heart is
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Damp with the fury of
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Finding and losing
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This miracle girl
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He feels weak with confusion, like
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What had he said?
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How long had he talked?
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He watches them walk to the doors
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His blood roars
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In the back of the cab, the girls sit there giggling
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The driver lets them smoke out of the window
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So they're shivering
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They pass a bottle of wine back and forth
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Let it clash against their teeth
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The cab moves fast through the streets
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'Who was that guy you was with?'
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Becky shakes her head softly
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'Him? I don't know, probably alright
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But I could tell he was one of them "save me" types
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And I couldn't be dealing with that
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Not tonight.'
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