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Year Of The Bitch

from Youth by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six

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To read Louis Barabbas' song commentary visit bedlamyouth.com/lyrics-commentary/year-of-the-bitch/

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Next year is the year of the bitch.
No one will get lucky,
No one will get rich
And we’ll be telling lies
When we say we don’t know why
We talk about this world as if it’s all in bits.

Next year is the year of the bitch.
The panicking will peak at a piercing pitch
And everyone will hate
And obsess about their weight
And waste away in want
For the things that they once ditched.

Where were you when we changed our minds,
Put our ideals on ice and our hearts into brine?
Where were you when we fell?
Where were you?

Next year is the year of the bitch.
We’ll package up our lives
And take them to the tips
And sit back in our chairs,
Assuming fancy airs,
As it all falls round our ears, drip by drip.

People all just stood around
Watering their lawns as the cities fell down;
I could barely make out the time
As the air turned to ash and the sea to slime.

Where were you when we changed our minds,
Put our ideals on ice and our hearts into brine?
Where were you when we fell?
Where were you?

Next year is the year of the bitch.
We’ll swallow all their lies
Like hungry little chicks,
Every consonant and vowel:
Wretched, rank and foul,
We’ll cling to every word
Like tiny little ticks.

Where were you when we changed our minds,
Put our ideals on ice and our hearts into brine?
Where were you when we fell?
Where were you when we lost ourselves?
Where were you?

credits

from Youth, released March 3, 2014
Louis Barabbas (writer) - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Matthew Cleghorn - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
Tom Cleghorn - Drums, Backing Vocals
Fran Lydiatt - Piano, Backing Vocals
Biff Roxby - Trombones (bass and tenor), Backing Vocals
Dan Watkins (engineer) - Bass Guitar

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Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six Manchester

Between 2006-2016 the Bedlams relentlessly peddled their peculiar brand of Dirt-Swing, capturing the imaginations of every species of listenership, winning support from the likes of Supergrass, The Mighty Boosh, Har Mar Superstar, UB40, Mark Steel, The Hell’s Angels and BBC Radio, inspiring stage invasions, dancing in the aisles and a confused mixture of exhaustion and bonhomie wherever they went ... more

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