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How I Learned to Love the Freaks

from How I Learned to Love the Freaks by Vinny Peculiar

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Oh dear its the fear of the unknown again, and before we knew it we were centre stage in a clockwork orange tribute show...

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There were a couple freaks in the village
When I was growing up they used to walk past our house
Long hair bangles and cheese cloth shirts
They were older than us but not by much

They carried record bags they were mysterious
And my dad was not impressed
But my Mum said she knew them from the college where she worked
Said they were nice lads we said yeah

To me they seemed strange aloof and remote and completely indifferent
They didn’t play football they rarely spoke to anyone
We didn’t know their names or where they were from…

One day we were messing around outside the paper shop
With some of the hard lads from Cobnall Road
And the freaks walked past minding their own business
And then out of the blue someone shouted ‘what are you looking at’

And before we knew it, we were chasing them across the fields to the waste ground behind the new estate
We caught up with the freaks of course we did and they were sadly resigned to their fate


There’s an ugly feeling when you join the mob
And it’s brutal cruel and infectious
We all piled in there was kicking and screaming and
We set about the freaks and then we set about leaving

When the ambulance arrived, we were already gone
Hiding in Ronnie Spuds’ caravan
It was covered in page three pictures from the sun
With a girl for every persuasion

Thank god those freaks were ok bruises and cuts a little shaken up
My mother asked me was I involved at all
I lied I said no what would I do something like that for ?

And the Freaks were never seen again
They never pressed charges I was grateful to them
Off to university end of the year
To study for something no one had heard of before

Freaks
And how I learned to love them
This one’s for the Freaks
Freaks…

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from How I Learned to Love the Freaks, released September 15, 2023
Alan Wilkes - writer, vocals, guitars, drum prog, production
Leah Wilkes - backing vocals
Dave Draper - production, drum prog, guitar solo sections

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Vinny Peculiar Worcester, UK

Vinny Peculiar variously described as – ‘An under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT Magazine]– a warm hearted Morrissey [Q Magazine] and ‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES ... more

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