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You better behave or they’ll send you away
Send you away to the back wards
Just settle down and do as you’re told
Or they’ll make you pay on the back wards

Remember Peter Davies stood on his tiptoes
Smashed a lot of cups broke a lot of windows
Now he rocks like a baby doesn’t say a word
He’s just a pussycat these days so I heard

The silent giant sweeps the day room floor
People bang their heads on the wall
The nurses are smoking, smoking and joking
Knuckle sandwich a black aspirin

Remember Penny Jones with the amazing hair
In the micro skirts showing all her underwear
They hit her where it hurts and she stayed down
No witnesses no recourse no one else around

There’s a punishment block a time out room
Where they give you a good kicking
No body hears you when you scream
Everyone says it was nothing

The ward clerk and the fat NA
Take their evil secrets to the grave
Tell stories about the good old days
On the back wards

The porter leaves the trolley in the snow
The big wigs come and go
When you’re out of sight and out of mind
All leave applications declined

On the back wards
We’re going backwards…

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from Silver Meadows [Fables from the Institution], track released June 6, 2016
Bobby Kewley - Bass
Paul Tsanos -Drums
David Marsden - Strings, keys
Alan Wilkes - Main/backing vocals, guitars, E Bow,

Writer - Alan Wilkes
Producer - David Marsden

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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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