Well let me tell you the story About the way I've lived My streets are steeped in secrets My memories in myths If Clerkenwell's the cradle I'm the kid
Day One I defined myself Bohemian by birth Disposed with the doctor Made out with a nurse Yeah I was born a bastard And then I just got worse
I'm the kid Who lives In the city A kiss
The chimneys and the gutters Are the place that I call home The junkies whores and nutters Call me their very own I big it up in Bloomsbury Shoot up the city road Get down in the sewers From Shoreditch to SoHo
And you don't be concerned With the things they said I did I ain't got no regrets No one to forgive I ain't talking gangsters And that East Coast West Coast shit No one calls me a homeboy I'm the Clerkenwell Kid
Well I've done my share of cheating and deceiving But I tell you I know no other way So please believe me when I say I'm the Clerkenwell Kid And you're just sitting pretty in the city all alone Come and join me Make my world your own We'll dance forever out into the blue Waltz together underneath the London moon