I DIDN'T CARE.

ON GROWING UP AND OUT.

If my old man said
get neat dressed
washed up

and do your hair
we're going
to the cinema

or up West
I washed up
dressed

in my best suit
and Brylcreemed
my hair

and I was there
just him and me
no other to share

I didn't care
I was there
not elsewhere

and it was
ice cream
or lolly

and best seat
in the house
and I was glad

I was there
not elsewhere
just us

I didn't care
yet when
my mother

took us away
and not there
but elsewhere

away from him
I didn't care
I wasn't there

but elsewhere
for he
was a bugger to her

and made her hurt
and cry
and didn’t care

so I was glad
I wasn't there
with him

but elsewhere
with her
for he was not

worth my care
so I was out
of there

and elsewhere
so there
I didn't care.