Seventeen Going Under

[Verse 1] I remember sickness was forever I remember snuff videos Cold Septembers The distances we covered The first time on the beach The cops would round us up Do it all again next week Embryonic love The first time, yeah it scarred Embarrass yourself for someone And you're cryin like a child And the boy who took that from me Still bugs me now Thats the thing, it lingers And claws you when you're down [Verse 2] I was far to scared to hit him But I'd hit him in a hеartbeat now Thats the thing with anger It bеgs to stick around So it can fleece you of your beauty And leave you spend with nowt to offer You hurt the ones who love you You hurt them like they're nothing [Verse 3] See, I spent my teens enraged Spirallin' in silence And I armed myself with a grin 'Cause I was always the joker Buried in the humour amongst the white noise and the boys' boys Locker room talkin' lads' lads Drenched in cheap drinks and wine bags Thats a mirror, picture of my old man To be God the kids a dab hand Canny chanter, but he looks sad Oh God the kid looks so sad [Bridge] She said "the debt, the debt, the debt" So I thought about shifting gears So she wept and wept and she wept Well, luck came and died around here I see my mother, Centrelink sees a number Shes crying on the floor encumbered Seventeen going under Seventeen going under, yeah [Outro] I'm protected, undercovers Treat you like you're nothing And you just become a number Yeah, I'm seventeen going under Seventeen going under