Frank Turner - I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous lyrics

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Let's begin at the beginning: we're lovers and we're losers, <br />

We're heroes and we're pioneers, and we're beggars and we're choosers.<br />

We're skirting round the edges of the ideal demographic.<br />

We're almost on the guestlist, but we're always stuck in traffic.<br />

We've watched our close associates up and play their parts; <br />

They're chatting up the it girls, and they're tearing up the charts, <br />

While we were paying with coppers to get our round in at the bar.<br />

We're the C-Team, we're the almost famous old friends of the stars.<br />

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Justin is the last of the great romantic poets, <br />

And he's the only one among us who is ever going to make it.<br />

We planned a revolution from a cheap Southampton bistro.<br />

I don't remember details but there were English boys with banjos.<br />

Jay is our St George, and he's standing on a wooden chair, <br />

And he sings songs and he slays dragons, and he's losing all his hair.<br />

Adam is the resurrected spirit of Gram Parsons, <br />

In plaid instead of rhinestone and living in South London.<br />

And no one's really clear about Tommy's job description, <br />

But it's pretty clear he's vital to the whole damn operation.<br />

Dave Danger smiles at strangers, Tre's the safest girl I know, <br />

Zo and Harps will skamper up to victory in the city we call home.<br />

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We won't change our ways, we will proud remain when the glory fades.<br />

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I am sick and tired of people who are living on the B-list.<br />

They're waiting to be famous and they're wondering why they do this.<br />

And I know I'm not the one who is habitually optimistic, <br />

But I'm the one who's got the microphone here so just remember this:<br />

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Life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings, <br />

About fire in our bellies and furtive little feelings, <br />

And the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering, <br />

And help us with remembering that the only thing that's left to do is live.<br />

After all the loving and the losing, the heroes and the pioneers, <br />

The only thing that's left to do is get another round in at the bar.