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