Nine-All and Fifteen-Three
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sad and strange echoes ring
pictures rise and fall
painful teachers drawn-out days
i can still recall
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churning stomach walking in
homework never done
outside workmen joke and laugh
in snow and rain and sun
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far away those echoes now
long gone hymn-filled hall
the magic bell of going home
and waiting for the call
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and running crazy satchel flying
down the old playground
dribbling hurtling screaming stretching
bodies all around
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fifteen, twenty, eight- a- side
no-one really cared
“you have him he’s useless..”
life – was being there
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worn out shoes with cardboard
playing in the rain
concrete pitch and shins all grazed
clothing torn again
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and after in the lamplight
up against the wall
tapping trapping all alone
my old tennis ball
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and in that empty playground
trying hard to lose
growing fears of going home
mud-stained ripped and bruised
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and sneaking under turnstiles
soaked and wet clean through
dreaming dreams you cling on long
as only dreamers do
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but who could dream this simple game
would swift outgrow us all
would chrystalise to rule our lives.
but is it still football?
¶ 11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 (…..as we know it)
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