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Comedown Town

by Shoreditch Boy

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Comedown Town

Are you coming up? Are you coming down?
How’s the trip exactly?
Are we there yet? Is this Comedown Town?

Yo, yo, cabbie, has it dropped yet? You dropped me off yet?
The door’s locked but I wanna get out mate.
I wanna get out at Comedown Town

You’ll know it when you see it
There’ll be Goths and emo’s init
But you’ll have to bear and grin it
Coz that’s where my true love lives init
That’s where I crumble it and skin it
Inhale sharp and then begin it
Chase it with a tonic with some gin in it
Then chuck the spoon and bin it
Coz if you don’t score you ain’t gonna win it, init

Oh my days I just saw a clown!
This must be Comedown Town

Yo, yo, pullover pullover
Yeah next to that punk gargling vomit
No, that’s some deaf kid with a grommit
No that’s an indie chick coming out the Space Comet
No, that’s a homeless lying on a car bonnet
Next to him – yeah – the bourgeois bohemian
The wannabe poor Trustafarian
Thinks he’s a gangster, basically a librarian
Reckons he’s Cool Brittania but he’s a Bulgarian
Got a mate thinks he’s posh but he’s proletarian
Oh the irony of it all, I don’t mean to be a contrarian
But it vexes me, people eating sushi when they say they vegetarian
Blokes hanging out in student bars when they basically octogenarian
Gives me a pain right here like a cyst that’s ovarian – and I ain’t even a chick you know what I mean, blood?

Yeah this’ll do, I’m coming up now I can feel it
Just drop me off the corner so I can set up stall and deal it
Got my greens, got my whites, got my Hovis that is brown
I feel like I am ready, like I’m ready for Comedown Town

Hang on let me just paint on my frown
Let me just get ready to drown (deep inhale)
Okay, you can drop me off now in Comedown Town

Gonna go to the Crown, down some rounds, then bum around
That’s what I’m gonna do tonight in Comedown Town
Then I’ll get me to the Hawley where the girls are all horny but never put out
Where the cliterrati clash with the trilbies, there you’ll find me hanging around
Between Bellend Park and Chalk Animal Farm you’ll find Comedown Town

Breathe it in, breathe it in, breathe it in, and begin the beguine of sin again, Michael Finnegan
Suggs you nearly had it right, but you got it the wrong way round
I’ll meet you at the underground, I’ll walk with you as the sun goes down
But believe blood, we ain’t coming up, we coming down
Welcome to my Camden Town



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released February 27, 2013

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Shoreditch Boy UK

Shoreditch Boy is a performance poet who riffs grotesque lyrical ballads and fucked-up fairytales on age-old themes of thwarted love, broken dreams and estate agency. He's gigged at Latitude, Camden Crawl and Edinburgh Festival.

“The most notable poet of the night. Comedic yet dark, allowing us to gauge the increasing levels of depravity as he powers on through the lines” – Sounding Out.
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