Real People

[Chorus]
You are the people
We are the people
You are the people
All the the people

You are the people
We are the people
You are the people
All the the people

[Verse 1]
I was born in a hospital miles from home
Where we lived was a village didn't have telephone
Didn't have television, didn't have telegraph
Open fire, no radiator, porcelain bath
Felt far from deprived
Didn't even have a bus until '75
40-mile round-trip to the nearest town
Me, my brother and my sister got down off the bus
Me holding my brand new plastic gun
My brother in trouble with my mum for the purchase
Memories are priceless, form my verse
Spending all day skimming stones off the river
On the bend where the church is
If life ever was a circus, family is tent-shaped, other tribes worthless

[Chorus]
You are the people
We are the people
You are the people
All the the people

You are the people
We are the people
You are the people
All the the people

[Verse 2]
It feels like a rollerblade
When you're skidding through life with no phone as such
So I slow up my skates and I stole the shade
No limelight please I'm in a private state
And my phone I clutch
Cos I love my roots
And I'll be staying in touch, take my walking boots
To go back to the hills where I ran through the heather
I don't talk like this to be clever!
I do it cos it's soul whatever
And it's from-the-heart music, don't care what you say
This is my life, it's always gonna be that way
So I move for myself, my priority's J
And my blooding
What it is, it is
What it's not don't matter, don't concern myself
You can't steal my richness, freeze my assets or burn my wealth
Gimme food, gimme shelter, heat and health

[Chorus]
You are the people
We are the people
You are the people
All the the people

You are the people
We are the people
You are the people
All the the people