When We Were Hooligans

Sometimes I sit and reminisce about the good old days I miss About the days I spent with all my friends In fact, I've come to realize those were the best days of our lives Oh, what I'd give to be fourteen once again But still nostalgia makes me sick, I feel I've grown up far too quick But I can't help thinking 'bout back in the days When we were the riff, we were the raff, my pals would wait outside my gaff The door would open and you'd hear my old girl say "Oh, no, he can't come out to play tonight He's lucky he ain't dead, the shite He's stole another tenner out of my purse And so all you boys can piss off home Don't bell him on his dog and bone I swear to God you fuckers make him worse" But little did she know That when she's tucked up, oh, so tight We'd roamed the streets 'til it was light Run from old bill all through the night Until the day We were delinquent little shits We were the hood rats taking sips out of a bottle While we sit on your estate And life was so simple then When we were hooligans So off we'd roam into the night, we'd ride our stolen pedal bikes And who's to say where we would go or who'd we see But still a plan that never failed, gets on the booze and off the rails We'd buy a twenty bag of snout with a fake ID And all our clobber was on form, we'd wear the swing made uniform Grey tracksuit bottoms, Ralph Lauren, we were looking suave And all the birds are throwing up cheap Chardonnay in plastic cups Dressed like it's prom night but they're pissing in a park And it's only 8 o'clock But who's to say romance is dead She's in the bushes off her head With an older boy who stole her ped that she adores But old Prince Charming's just a drip The smell of Stella on his lips Her makeup's run, her tights are ripped Her knees are sore And girls were so foolish then When we were hooligans So as the night would carry on, the joints were rolled and the birds were gone As all the boys sat on the benches getting stoned And as we got high into the night, you'd hear the sirens, see the lights So it's the scum, here they come to take us home So with a meaty on the way, we'd throw the booze and the green away We'd jump the fence, lodge out the park onto the streets Oh, hurry up boys, fucking hell, I can't spend the night locked in cell 'Cause my old man and my old girl think I'm asleep But what a way to end the night, chased through the streets by flashing lights If you can't have it on your toes, you're getting torn And as the night came to an end, we lodged the old bill once again Before my mum was up, I'd slip through the front door Oh my, how times have changed So as I sit and reminisce About those good old days I miss So much has changed, sometimes I wish I'd not grown old They'd call us hood rats, call us scum I'd call us kids just having fun We were delinquents who would call these streets our home And we believed things would be that way forever then When we were hooligans When we were hooligans