When I was a wild, young turk
It's now the Museum of Industry
Schoolkids get in for free
Brickworks-smell of rotten eggs
Rubber works poured out the dregs
Now it smells of Dettol and pee
Lotteryland's the place to be
Where the steelmill used to stand
There's a park in Lotteryland
Be a pram-pusher on parole
Go windsurfing on the dole
They can put you right to sleep
Better than Brookside or The Street
It's lucky numbers, one, two three
Lotteryland's the place to be
We don't care who runs the shop
Left wing, right wing, curse the lot
A million quid talks sense to me
Lotteryland's the place to be
Now gone is dirt and gone is strife
And gone is struggle and gone is life
"Shove it, mate, I'm busy see"
Lotteryland's the place to be
Now we triple lock the doors
Streets are full of thieves and whores
In a padded cell eternity
Lotteryland's the place to be
Lotteryland's the place to be
Lotteryland's the place to be
That's the place I used to work When I was a wild, young turk It's now the Museum of Industry Schoolkids get in for free Brickworks-smell of rotten eggs Rubber works poured out the dregs Now it smells of Dettol and pee Lotteryland's the place to be Where the steelmill used to stand There's a park in Lotteryland Be a pram-pusher on parole Go windsurfing on the dole They can put you right to sleep Better than Brookside or The Street It's lucky numbers, one, two three Lotteryland's the place to be We don't care who runs the shop Left wing, right wing, curse the lot A million quid talks sense to me Lotteryland's the place to be Now gone is dirt and gone is strife And gone is struggle and gone is life "Shove it, mate, I'm busy see" Lotteryland's the place to be Now we triple lock the doors Streets are full of thieves and whores In a padded cell eternity Lotteryland's the place to be Lotteryland's the place to be Lotteryland's the place to be Explain Request ×
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