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What were we like at seventeen

Got some cars and we raced all over town

Just rubber bands on four wheels

Paint so faded yet we felt dazzled by the gleam

Yours died in some distant field

Mine crashed and burned on the Perth Road

You laugh 'cause it makes you strong

But no one else ever seems to get the joke

But you were the only one around here

You were the only one around here

You were the only one who ever did

Put it off till another day

Have it now as long as the minimum is paid

A funny little game we have nothing

Though surrounded by things held under our name

The beautiful lady on your arm

And the baby that sits upon your knee

It would take some suicidal fool

To rock the boat when you are in so deep

But you were the only one around here

You were the only one around here

You were the only one who ever would

There's blood in the toothpaste

As I spit the stagnant water from the glass

A crumpled shirt and a frayed old tie

The hangman's noose to our great working class

Sold what we already have

In this land where you are what you own

And the ones who could make the changes

Hide in their fortresses till they need our votes

But you were the only one around here

You were the only one around here

You were the only one who ever cared