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Artist: Saint Etienne
Canonical path: /saint-etienne/amateur
Related lyric paths: 6
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Amateur
Read Amateur lyrics by Saint Etienne on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Amateur
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Janine, just 19
Joined a pyramid scheme
Didn't think it mean
To inflate her estate - left it too late
Broke her dreams, broke her friends
Who said "courtesy is dead"
And now a piece of farnborough
Is looking like tiranha
She's banking on the fee
She'll get from itv
Rethink, refrain
Don't pull the choke chain
Amateur...
Karl, frozen smile
Got himself a mobile
Got a house, one wrinkle
Couldn't get a signal
Pretty fast put a mast
On the neighbouring flats
A little girl called jill
Will become very ill
But that is years away
So who gives a hey?
5 star review - who?
Bought a new lp
Had to agree
With the critic - really dug my lyric
Tolerate all the people who hate
When they walk all over you
Oh, baby, what you're gonna do?
Get a corinthian view
Wear the pink and blue
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