[Verse 1: Britpop male lead, swaggering] We were four lads from a town with one road out Signed for a single that the label talked about Shiny little record, they pushed it on the radio Peaked at fifty-three, and then it fell off the show But the other side was a song we wrote for a laugh Three chords and a chorus on the back of a bus pass Never had a video, never had a plan Just a lad with a cold and a borrowed van [Pre-Chorus: Britpop male lead, rising] Nobody bought it for the side they meant Everybody flipped it over, and that's where it went [Chorus: Britpop male lead, huge] We were the B-side, and you played us more Every wedding, every wake, every lock-in on the floor Never made the chart, never made the cover We were the B-side, and you sang us to each other [Verse 2: Britpop male lead, older, bigger] Band broke up, and I took a job with a trowel Pete moved south, and Gaz threw in the towel Twenty years of plaster on a ladder in the rain Then I'm at my cousin's wedding and I hear it again Whole room singing every word that I wrote Kids who weren't born when we pressed it, every note Bride's dad crying with his arm round his mate Nobody knows the plasterer at table eight [Pre-Chorus: Britpop male lead, rising] Nobody bought it for the side they meant Everybody flipped it over, and that's where it went [Chorus: Britpop male lead, huge] We were the B-side, and you played us more Every wedding, every wake, every lock-in on the floor Never made the chart, never made the cover We were the B-side, and you sang us to each other [Bridge: Britpop male lead, close, then lifting] Singer in the wedding band calls it out by name Says, nobody knows who wrote it, but it's ours all the same Gaz is on the phone, and he's crying down the line Pete's in the back of a taxi singing out of time I don't say a word, I just stand on a chair And I sing the second harmony that only I know is there [Chorus: Britpop male lead, double-tracked last chorus, every word doubled and huge] We were the B-side, and you played us more Every wedding, every wake, every lock-in on the floor Never made the chart, never made the cover We were the B-side, and you sang us to each other [Outro: Britpop male lead] Play the other side, the side that you prefer Flip it over, flip it over, that's where we were [End]
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