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I Want My Money Back

from The Circus by Broken Down Lorry

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Sometimes it really was a feat of achievement that the heavily-loaded 258 bus would make it up and over the hill between Bushey Heath and Bushey itself. The day I came up with this lyric it felt as though all the passengers were having to march the bus up the hill in lieu of an engine. As for wandering by the Volkhov, well that’s my desire to return to Novgorod, and an attempt to slip a Russian river into the lyrics like Easterhouse did on their first album.

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Sometimes I’ve had to wonder if the bus is going to make it
If the driver’s feet can take it over the hill
And I wouldn’t trust my brother with this secret I’ve been given
My life wouldn’t be worth living
Over the hill

Should I fix the odds and build a stack
And hold it against you
Should I dig a hole and build a trap
Because I want my money back

Will I get to wander by the Volkhov in the summer?
Will you be my lucky number?
There’s nowhere for me to hide here with your houses full of strangers
And your gardens turned to car parks all over the hill

Well I still don’t tread on pavement cracks
And I’ve had enough of Basement Jaxx
And that red door, I want to paint it black
Cos I want my money back
I want my money back

From crease and fold to have-and-hold
And poverty from on the dole
And you wonder where the money goes
And I wonder but I just don’t know
And I wonder but I just don’t know

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from The Circus, released January 3, 2006

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Broken Down Records. Releases include The Irony Board of Bolton, Echolalia of NW London, Broken Down Lorry of Harrow, The Broken Heed of Watford and The Salient Braves of Barnsley

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