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In The End Lyrics
[LSK]
My baby was born in a bed
With white sheets, machines and heat
Traveled home in a car to a three room nest, eats and sleeps
Laminate flooring to crawl on, TV,
Talks, starts to walk, amongst love and security.
Goes to school, learns to read and write
Probably follows a team with his friends
And gets to ride the train,
Fall in love, probably fly on a plane
Get to work all week and spend what he earns
On the high street
He's got doctors, nurses, fireman, churches,
Kindergarten, wedding bells and jet black hearses
Passport, bankcard, maybe his own yard
Locks and alarms, trinkets and charms,
Maybe a baby in his arms
[Maxi Jazz]
My baby was born on his knees
One of poverty 's offspring
Came into the world coughing,
Already full of mother's disease
Went back to a flat, with no gas, no cash,
Rapped in a duvet full of cigarette ash,
Mama can't get no sleep,
Baby never quite get enough to eat.
Goes to school, learns to steal and fight,
Probably form a team with his friends,
Go steam those trains
Fall in love and never trust nobody again
Gets to work all week standing on the high street for Joe, Hustling blow, hustling blow.
My baby was born in a bed
With white sheets, machines and heat
Traveled home in a car to a three room nest, eats and sleeps
Laminate flooring to crawl on, TV,
Talks, starts to walk, amongst love and security.
Goes to school, learns to read and write
Probably follows a team with his friends
And gets to ride the train,
Fall in love, probably fly on a plane
Get to work all week and spend what he earns
On the high street
He's got doctors, nurses, fireman, churches,
Kindergarten, wedding bells and jet black hearses
Passport, bankcard, maybe his own yard
Locks and alarms, trinkets and charms,
Maybe a baby in his arms
My baby was born on his knees
One of poverty 's offspring
Came into the world coughing,
Already full of mother's disease
Went back to a flat, with no gas, no cash,
Rapped in a duvet full of cigarette ash,
Mama can't get no sleep,
Baby never quite get enough to eat.
Goes to school, learns to steal and fight,
Probably form a team with his friends,
Go steam those trains
Fall in love and never trust nobody again
Gets to work all week standing on the high street for Joe, Hustling blow, hustling blow.
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Firstly, great song, one of my favorite Faithless tracks of them all. I have heard it more times than I can ever count. Almost all of the lyrics make obvious sense, until we get down to the last few lines:
"Probably form a team with his friends [and] go steam those trains"
I always wondered if Faithless mean a "team" as in a gang/firm/etc. as opposed to a football team. The guy is selling drugs for a living, but once the drugs are all sold he's straight over the rec for a quick kick-around with his mates? Are you imaging him setting up a football team when you hear that line? The lyrics above miss out the "and" but it is there. Therefore I'm trying to use the one part as context for the other.
Lastly "go steam those trains", can that really be the correct lyrics? Maybe where you grew up that is the name for jumping the turnstile/sneaking onto the train without paying?
Educate me. :)
I originally thought that line was "probably form a team with his friends and go steal those trainers" meaning a shop lifting crew but after seeing the lyrics written down I assume that "steaming trains" means graffiti" as in a tagging crew!! who knows!!! : )
I originally thought that line was "probably form a team with his friends and go steal those trainers" meaning a shop lifting crew but after seeing the lyrics written down I assume that "steaming trains" means graffiti" as in a tagging crew!! who knows!!! : )