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(I got those) Special Brew blues

S’only about one-sixty a tin,
so it’s a bargin
by any fucker’s reckoning.

It’s a day spent on the street,
sitting on my seat,
asking, chasing, scoring, snoring,
here and there
I pick up a couple of quid
and everything’s sweet for a bit.

Don’t think about eating
or living or being
anywhere else but
here,
in the sun
or in the rain –
when the evening escapes me
and the morning runs
away.

Perfect product for a perfect consumer –
cheap as chips
and with a couple of wobbly-eggs
washed down
it even beats smack.

So FUCK all you who sup
bottles of Bud in shitty nightclubs
at three quid a go,
buying into a dream
of a self-image
that melts like snow
and soaks
into the dirt
and the mud.

Like a down payment
on a car
a flat
and the words you utter;
a job,
a life,
a reason,
has no true meaning when you
see the way in which
everything disintegrates
like empty pizza boxes
in the gutter.

I’m content with
making it through the day
until the night collapses
covered in puke and piss
mewling like a cat in an alleyway,
everything will be OK
so long as I believe
that one of you lot out there
is gonna buy
the next tin for me.

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from Ashley Reaks & Joe Hakim - Cultural Thrift, released September 26, 2015

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