Paddy Wagon – 17th October 1983

Paddy paddy paddy wagon
Take you to the nick
Paddy paddy paddy wagon
Do just the trick
Arrested from all hope
At last night’s do
It was a fun party
Til the coppers joined in too

7th May 2023 – This possibly connects to a great party at someone’s house in Colehill. I think it was someone I vaguely knew from a year or two below me in school. It was fun for a while, a big house with lots of rooms to discover, parents away.
But it got boring watching the trendy kids dance to mind-numbing disco crap so I went around to find rooms empty of people and started stealing little bits and pieces that might go unnoticed for a while. As I got more into it though I started taking more.
The next day I heard that the police had been called to come and investigate and I waited at home wondering if I would get arrested. Nothing came of it in the end though. My apologies to any of the kids that I may have traumatised.

Outside The Door – 2nd October 1983

Outside the door, inside my mind
Feeding the poor, curing the blind

No more starvation, only elation
No more whores, no more wars

Outside the door, inside my head
Killing no more, there’s no dead

No more stealing, sounds appealing
No more beating, now everyone’s eating

But it’s outside the door, on the other side
So we’re still poor, and the people have died
We must unlock the door and open it wide
To recognise the truth from the lies

Outside the door, inside my mind

In And Out – 18th September 1983

In and out lifestyle, it becomes a bore
It’s boring doing the same things, I won’t anymore
In and out, repeat, repeat, clock the card
In and out, clocked in, trying too hard

5th May 2023 – Despite never having worked a day in my life I already was aware of the realities of the rat race. I’ve spent many years clocking in and out since then and admittedly, I do still hate that.