The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell Kid lyrics

Well let me tell you the story

About the way I've lived

My streets are steeped in secrets

My memories in myths

If Clerkenwell's the cradle

I'm the kid

Day One I defined myself

Bohemian by birth

Disposed with the doctor

Made out with a nurse

Yeah I was born a bastard

And then I just got worse

I'm the kid

Who lives

In the city

A kiss

The chimneys and the gutters

Are the place that I call home

The junkies whores and nutters

Call me their very own

I big it up in Bloomsbury

Shoot up the city road

Get down in the sewers

From Shoreditch to SoHo

And you don't be concerned

With the things they said I did

I ain't got no regrets

No one to forgive

I ain't talking gangsters

And that East Coast West Coast shit

No one calls me a homeboy

I'm the Clerkenwell Kid

Well I've done my share of cheating and deceiving

But I tell you I know no other way

So please believe me when I say

I'm the Clerkenwell Kid

And you're just sitting pretty in the city all alone

Come and join me

Make my world your own

We'll dance forever out into the blue

Waltz together underneath the London moon