Neighbour

Skinheads in the doorway

Get their heads kicked in

Full of drugs and racism

Now it’s getting grim



A clip joint bouncer

Beats them to a pulp

And leaves them in the gutter

On their blood to gulp



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Soho’s news



Well Jimmy my slum landlord

Comes round for the rent

Well Jackie who he pimps for

Her money he has spent



Well there’s junkies in the toilet

And the front door’s been kicked down

Mr rent boy neighbours

Well they go up and down



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The news



Well a man from a northern town

He goes steaming in

Someone stole his sixty pounds

So now he does him in



Well a piano bar bouncer

Goes to the person’s defence

Stealing money for his fix

Well that was the offence



That’s the news

That’s the news

That’s the news

The Soho news



Up the road a clipper

Gets stabbed through the heart

She tried to rip off a psychopath

And now pays for her art



I saw her standing in the rain

On a Sunday afternoon

I looked into her eyes

And I knew that she was doomed



That’s the news

The news

The Soho news