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Sam Fender

Getting Started (live from Finsbury Park)

Release date: 5th September 2022

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"Getting Started (live from Finsbury Park)" is a single by Sam Fender, released 5th September 2022. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Sam Fender.

About the Artist

Sam Fender

Sam Fender

Lyrics

Getting Started (live from Finsbury Park)

One, two
One two three four

Eighteen, failed dream
Attracted to a bad scene
Think I'll make a couple errands
Cataclysmic age to be
When you're out of luck and your mother's in need

I made my money for the crooks and pushers
In the hopes that I claw something together for the night
I'm going out
For tonight
I'm going out

I'm only getting started
Don't need to be disheartened
Felt like giving up so many times before
But I'm still here grinding

I'm only getting started
Don't mean to be disheartened
Felt like giving up so many times before
But I'm still here grinding

I came home and you were on the floor
Floored by the letters and the council rigmarole
What I wouldn't do to get you out this hole

For tonight I gotta let go
But tonight you gotta let me let go

I'm only getting started
Don't mean to be disheartened
Felt like giving up so many times before
But I'm still here grinding

I'm only getting started
Don't mean to be disheartened
Felt like giving up so many times before
But I'm still here grinding

I'm only getting started
Don't mean to be disheartened
Felt like giving up so many times before
But I'm still here grinding

I'm only getting started
Don't mean to be disheartened
Felt like giving up so many times before
But I'm still here grinding

Thank you!

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

Getting Started (live from Finsbury Park)

2022Single
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Release year
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