The Boy with the Arab Strap Belle and Sebastian

[Verse 1]
A mile and a half on a bus takes a long time
The odour of old prison food takes a long time to pass you by
Day upon day of this wandering gets you down
Nobody gives you a chance or a dollar in this old town

[Verse 2]
Hovering silence from you is a giveaway
Squalor and smoke's not your style
I don't like this place, we better go
Then I compare notes with your older sister
I am a lazy git, she is as pure as the cold driven snow

[Chorus]
What did you learn from your time
In the solitary cell of your mind?
There was noise, the distraction from anything good
And the old prison food
Colour my life with the chaos of trouble
'Cause anything's better than posh isolation
I missed the bus
You were laid on your back with the boy with the Arab strap
With the boy from the Arab strap

[Verse 3]
It's something to speak of the way you are feeling
To crowds there assembled
Do you ever feel you have gone too far?
If everyone suffers in silence a burden
The man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton
The Asian man with his love/hate affair with his racist clientele