[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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A book on household plants gently slipped from her grasp
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And her breathing became deeper, familiar and calm
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And only when she'd shifted her body weight slightly
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And sunk her head into the softer of those two duck feathered pillows
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Only then did Albert lean over to his wifes side of the bed
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Flick the lamp off and then in total darkness
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And wearing his trusty blue striped pyjamas
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Heaved his heavy frame from his fake slumber
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Made his way carefully past the cumbersome ottoman and the precarious shoe rack
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Trying not to breathe he was silent, he was stealth
[Verse 2]
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Aware of every creak on the staircase he used her fluffy slippers as a softener
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Cushioning each footstep on the way down
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At the foot of the stairs was a cupboard and inside behind a secret panel was his costume
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He disrobed, briefly naked, guilty, excitingly nude in his own house so late at night
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The costume it thrilled him and made him giggle in practically equal measure
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Tight jeans, black tight t-shirt with the words "iron maiden" writ large
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He pulled on his leather jacket and his Doc Martens
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And he went out into the cold
[Chorus]
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Cause you see Albert went out to see rock bands
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Stayed up til the morning light
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You're only as old as you feel they say
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And Albert was feeling alright
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[Verse 3]
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A 77 year old man head-banging in a mosh pit can go easily unnoticed particularly when everyone else is
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headbanging in a mosh pit
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And although Albert felt uncomfortable at times, that was mostly due to the lack of give in his jeans
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He felt joyful, he felt alive
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In fact the louder the music, the more he enjoyed it
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This pastime meant for teenagers, he embraced the strangeness
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The sweat of a stranger, the thud of a bassline pumping through his veins
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At one point Albert threw both arms up in the air
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Pulled his two middle fingers down with his thumbs and made the "rock" gesture
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As hundreds of kids moved as one, with him in their throngs screaming words to the songs they'd all learnt
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in their bedrooms at home
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When the band finished playing he went out into the street in search of more adventures, revelling in his
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late blooming teenage rebellion.
[Bridge]
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Still his clock it ticked on in his bedroom at home
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As his wife fast asleep was seemingly unaware he was buying cheap cider and eating an offensively large
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kebab from a confused high street vendor.
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He intended to stay up as late as he could, soaking up the motion of cars he got himself lost in a park,
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played drunken air guitar
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And still the clock ticked on in his bedroom at home as he recaptured a batch of his youth all alone
[Chorus]
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Cause you see Albert went out to see rock bands
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Stayed up til the morning light
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You're only as old as you feel they say
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And Albert was feeling alright
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[Verse 4]
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Round 5am Albert found his way back to his street
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As the sun peeked its face behind a neatly oval shaped hill, heralding the dawn of the day
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He looked up at his house and then down at his shoes, those Doc Martens as dark as the night was two
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hours before
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"Oh this has been brilliant" Albert said out loud
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But then he bent down, pulled his shoes off, undid his yellow laces
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And he tied them together, threw them up to the sundusted sky
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Landing perfectly on the electrical wires like on the streets of New York next to 5 other pairs that he'd
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thrown there before
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He quietly opened his front door, pulled himself out of his t-shirt, and his jacket, and his jeans
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Found his blue striped pyjamas, crept back upstairs, got back into bed and fell instantly asleep
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Alberts wife opened her eyes, looked through the crack in the curtains onto a line of dirty black boots
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She smiled to herself, just pleased that he'd made it home safe
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