The Only Boy Racer Left On The Island - The Howl & The Hum

When I was young I said this town will live in my dust

My father said «My boy that’s life not for the likes of us»

But the boys in the streets, in the fast cars, they kept turning heads

And I said «Boy, they’re real men, one day I’ll be one of them»

The only boy racer left on the island

The only boy racer left on the island

They say you could hear the engine from the mainland

When I was 10, saw the high street hero speeding round the bend

But those engines got sold when the speed freak settled down in the sun

I guess masculinity’s a pursuit left to the embers of you

The only boy racer left on the island

The only boy racer left on the island

The only joys of holding on

If I suddenly am gathering on

The only boy racer left on the island

No man gets left behind

No man gets left behind