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As used in the film A Very British Gangster.

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I'm older than I was, young as I'll ever be
I'm at the age now where my youth appeals to me
funny how time's gone as soon as it's here
moment after moment and year after year

I'm from a town by the estuary
where the arse of the river meets the mouth of the sea
and that town's a shithole and everyone leaves
sunk down in the river or caught by the breeze

across that battlefield of oceans blue
who knows if your letter made though

I'm young as I ever was, old as I'll ever be
and everything I was I left where I used to be
in pain or anger, where I was I stand there still
pleasure or laughter, I stand there I always will

they can call me by the wrong name
but I remain the same

maybe you remember the times that we touched
when we witnessed each other
shared truths with a look
and out in the desert, proud warriors on horseback
say your soul's stolen in the frame of a photograph

if you can't remember where I was
that's 'cause I'm still there
when you can't remember where I was
I'm still there


© 2006 Robin Elliott
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from Weapons Antique & Modern, released May 7, 2013

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Robin Elliott London, UK

Extraordinary songwriter and performer.

Funnier and more self-deprecating than this makes me sound.

Forthcoming album There is a Land is awash with novel narrative strategies and novelty Brexit tunes.

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