Bird Boy

When I get home from school, my dad's already into it
Wearin' a white t-shirt, the word 'swag' written across it
The letters, they are printed 'cross a sexy girl's breasts
And I think about the girl before I get into bed

My mum works in a nursing home, she says she needs a drink
From all the nights spent cleaning up ninety-year-old shit
She says, "do you think I could go on Love Island seriously?"
And I say, "mum, you are not sexy enough for TV."

I walk up to the quarry
A flurry of ground pigeons move
From under my feet, they arrive at the sight of bad nеws
The world splits in two

I love the summеrs, you can play football 'til after ten
The yellow moon, it rises above the terraces
Sometimes the bigger boys think they can really take the piss
But once they play against me, they no longer think like this

Everyone says that we've not had a summer like this
Since the last really hot summer of '76
The dog pants and licks

Grey-haired and staring at fish down there by the canal
To me, it feels special
To everyone else, it's banal
Sometimes I think I'm the only person that can see it
It must be a ghost or a phantom or ancestral spirit
Payin' a visit

Everything that will happen
Has already happened
Everything that will happen
Has already happened

We've been learning 'bout reincarnation
In my past life, I was a raven
My grandfather says there should be a war
'Cause that is what wars are for