English Boy Lyrics - Singles - Townshend Pete

I'm an English boy 

I was brought up right 

Hold me down 

And I will bite 

I know no fear 

I serve with joy 

I'm proud to be here 

An English boy 

I feel like a stray dog 

Blurred like a movie 

You say you've come to arrest me 

But you're just trying to test me 

I'm bored with your prejudice 

Spreading like a fever 

Your promises to train me 

Are just attempts to restrain me 

I'm an English boy 

Precisely made 

Pin me down 

I am not afraid 

I show no fear 

I will serve with joy 

I'm proud to be here 

An English boy 

Use me like a headline 

Cut pieces to pieces 

I'm balack on the tube liine 

Red on the touch-line 

Freezing the future 

Stopping every stopwatch 

You say we're moving like an oil slick 

Thicker than a house brick 

I'm an English boy 

I was brought up right 

If you raise your dress 

Then I will bite 

My voice is clear 

I got perfect poise 

Good to be down here 

With all the English boys 

And I don't know where I am now 

Or where I'm gonna go 

I just keep going round and round on the circle line 

Like some demented kind of fool in the mirror 

Trying to avoid paying for my ticket 

I'm a lsot soul 

I read about myself in the newspapers 

I'm a pig 

I'm a thug 

I've got nowhere to go but down 

Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man 

Kicking in the chorus 

I'm broken by hatred 

While politicians just ignore us 

You never gave me any value 

You didn't give me any reason 

There's no tools and no toys 

For any English boys 

I'm an English boy 

I was brought up right 

Hold me down 

And I will bite 

I know no fear 

I serve with joy 

I'm proud to be here 

An English boy 

I'm an English boy 

No tools, no toys for any English boys 

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