Pulp - Mile End (Trainspotting Soundtrack)

We didn’t have no where to live, we didn’t have nowhere to go ’til someone said “I know this place off Burditt Road.“ It was on the fifteenth floor, it had a board across the door. It took an hour to pry it off and get inside. It smelt as if someone had died; the living-room was full of flies, the kitchen sink was blocked, the bathroom sink not there at all. Ooh, it’s a mess alright, yes it’s Mile End. And now we’re living in the sky! I’d never thought I’d live so high, just like Heaven (if it didn’t look like Hell.) The lift is always full of piss, the fifth floor landing smells of fish (not just on Friday, every single other day.) Below the kids come out tonight, they kick a ball and have a fight and maybe shoot somebody if they lose at pool. Ooh, it’s a mess alright, yes it’s Mile End. Oo-ooh Nobody wan
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