Hunchback (Dialogue) - Ray Davies

Hunchback (Dialogue) - Ray Davies
And as I walked round those tidy streets I thought to myself
How can anybody be at all unhappy in such a perfect world
How wrong I was
There's a little hunchback man
He used to walk round the streets
Of north london
His head was bowed
Forced to look at the ground by
This cruel debilitating hump on his back
And all of my school friends
Had a name for this hunchback
They called him the freak
And every time the freak walked down the street my friends would laugh
And I laughed with them
Now my dad was a sports fan
But in order to achieve all the ambitions
My father had for me
I trained really hard and eventually I became the
Captain of the school team
Until one cold winters afternoon I sustained
An injury actually it was kick up the arse but hey
I was sent to a specialist and he took x rays of my back
Examened me
And he said well you're gonna have to give up all sport for all time
Otherwise you're going to end up a hunchback like that man I see you
Laughing at
Maybe that was meant to scare me
I don't know
But all of a sudden I
Started to look at that freak in a new light
Because in him I saw my future
I would become a freak
But we all know that ugliness
Like beauty is only skin deep