January came and went
Eight years passed by and I forget
That it never used to snow where I grew up
But it snowed that night and it didn't stop
They're gonna take me down to the station
They wanna ask me a couple of questions
Like, "Do you remember where they were going?"
"Can you tell us about their condition?"
"Do you know if they'd been drinking?"
"Or doing any kinds of drugs?"
I apologise, 'cos I don't remember I guess I was too fucked up
I used to call your parents
Long after you disappeared
But the guilt makes me forgetful
And we haven't spoken in years
My childhood came to a sudden end
On the day that I buried a couple friends
And I'll carry that with me till the day that I die
That I was the last one to see you alive
But if we were invincible
And forever wasn't a lie
You wouldn't be seventeen six feet under
You'd have just turned twenty five
After the cops and all the cameras
The wailing of the sirens
The funerals and the flowers
Came a crushing dose of silence
And hindsight is 20-20
And that was 2012
I was seventeen, drunk, and reckless and you were twice my size
But if we were invincible
And forever wasn't a lie
You wouldn't be seventeen six feet under
You'd have just turned twenty five
I miss our south east violence
And the chaos of our Friday nights
When those Hackney boys from London
Would catch the train down just to fight us
In the fog of mid December
High off the white lightning highstreet tremors
And our voices would ring from the corners
And cut through the still night air
But no one sings around here anymore
And no one fights on these streets anymore
And no one sings around here anymore
And no one sings around here anymore