ASBO

It's all you wanted to be

Into a prison cell let you see

Released into mummy's shamed arms

And daddy's gonna kick you free

It seemed so very cool

Shoplifting at school

One day they'll cut them off

Your hands out-stretched in cuffs

And today's the beginning of the end

And the end of anything you lend

The loss of your self inspects

The tools with which they'll detect

And it seemed so very cool

Whilst you were bragging at school

One day they'll cut you off

Prison food is what you'll scoff

Everyone else is to blame

And that's the same once again

Echoes of the slipper and the cane

Shudder down your landing once again

And it seemed so very cool

Being arrested at the school

But today they cut you off

Cold porridge is all you're gonna cough

And you can call up all your addictions

And maybe get away with so called afflictions

But you are your own screw

Breathing down on you

I ask you is it so very clever

To be dragged, kicking and screaming from school

When everyone else always knew

It's you, the nasty little fool

Copyright Noel Roche 2007