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[[Category:Morrissey Lyrics]] | |||
[[File:I-have-forgiven-jesus.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] | |||
{{Songbox | {{Songbox | ||
| Name = The Slum Mums | | Name = The Slum Mums | ||
| Album = [[Swords]]<br>[[ | | Album = [[Swords]]<br>[[I Have Forgiven Jesus (single)|I Have Forgiven Jesus (CD2)]] | ||
| Length = 3:24 | | Length = 3:24 | ||
| Writer = Morrissey/Boorer/Day | | Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Boz Boorer]] / [[Writer::Gary Day]] | ||
| Producer = [[Jerry Finn]] | | Producer = [[Producer::Jerry Finn]] | ||
| Recorded = Circa late 2003 | | Recorded = Circa late 2003 | ||
| Release = December 2004 | | Release = December 2004 | ||
| ArtistType = Morrissey | | ArtistType = Morrissey | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Information== | ==Information== | ||
The digital download of the [[Swords]] album featured a 'new' edit (3:20) of this track which removed the child crying. | |||
== Lyrics == | == Lyrics == | ||
<poem> | |||
Six filthy children | |||
from six absent fathers | |||
and then you turn | |||
to us for succour | |||
because you think | |||
we're just suckers | |||
We may be welfare, oh yeah, | |||
but we don't care | |||
and we're paid to despise | |||
your council house eyes | |||
You can change your name | |||
and you can bleach your skin | |||
camouflage your accent | |||
so that even you don't recognise it | |||
But you won't escape | |||
from the slum mums | |||
because you are one | |||
because you live and breathe like one | |||
And the Labour government | |||
can't stand the slum mums | |||
It's ingrained | |||
underneath your fingernails | |||
The office of the | |||
Social Service | |||
is strategically placed | |||
in a dowdy, rowdy part of town | |||
to discourage you | |||
from signing | |||
We make you feel | |||
as if you're whining | |||
when you claim | |||
what's legally yours | |||
You can change your name | |||
and you can bleach your skin | |||
camouflage your accent | |||
so that even you don't recognise it | |||
But you won't escape | |||
from the slum mums | |||
because you are one | |||
because you live and breathe like one | |||
And the Labour government | |||
can't stand the slum mums | |||
It's ingrained | |||
underneath your fingernails | |||
Take you | |||
and your rat pack brood | |||
to the long grass of the meadow | |||
administer seven doses lethal | |||
and illegal | |||
which may render | |||
you elsewhere | |||
</poem> | |||
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