The people round here They just laugh and they sneer And they never appear to cry They just sit in their chair With their arms in the air And they don't seem to care 'til they die But I've heard that the grass is greener On the other side of the council estate No car but I know I'll go far If I haven't the patience to wait I bit my lip until it bled "Yes please!" was all I ever said But now it seems I'm closer to dreams Than I thought I would ever be I bit my lip I tried to explain The fear and the pain But they say I complain about nothing My head in my hands My feet in the sand Perhaps you'd understand that it's something But I've heard that the sky is bluer On the other side of the playing fields No map but I know that I can follow the way that I feel I bit my lip until it bled "Yes please!" was all I ever said But now it seems I'm closer to dreams Than I thought I would ever be I bit my lip