10 Comments on "Squeeze – Up The Junction"

  1. Thanks for the HD version of this classic.

  2. I listen to a lot of different music & I think this is simply one of the best songs ever written.

  3. all this fab band sing is a story , they are amazing ,,,,,in fact they are genius blokes i saw them several times in the early 80s what a complete utter joy xx lol to all fans xx

  4. Glenn Tilbrook has always reminded me a bit of John Lennon….

  5. I have just started reading Bob Mortimers biography “And Away” and in it he mentions the group Squeeze. I have just listened to them again after a very long time………..omg I had forgotten what a fantastic group they are, I’ve bought Squeeze Greatest Hits, brilliant. I actually had their albums ( shows how old I am!). I just started singing along with them and it’s amazing how you still know all the words. Love them, thank you for such amazing talent Squeeze, truly wonderful, a great British Group.

  6. This song is the definition of Poignant.

  7. One of the greatest 'story' songs of all time. The lyrics are smart and heartbreaking in equal measure. This is poetry put to music. Magic.

  8. I never thought it would happen
    With me and the girl from Clapham
    Out on the windy common
    That night I ain't forgotten
    When she dealt out the rations
    With some or other passions
    I said "you are a lady"
    "Perhaps" she said. "I may be"

    We moved in to a basement
    With thoughts of our engagement
    We stayed in by the telly
    Although the room was smelly
    We spent our time just kissing
    The Railway Arms we're missing
    But love had got us hooked up
    And all our time it took up

    I got a job with Stanley
    He said I'd come in handy
    And started me on Monday
    So I had a bath on Sunday
    I worked eleven hours
    And bought the girl some flowers
    She said she'd seen a doctor
    And nothing now could stop her

    I worked all through the winter
    The weather brass and bitter
    I put away a tenner
    Each week to make her better
    And when the time was ready
    We had to sell the telly
    Late evenings by the fire
    With little kicks inside her

    This morning at four fifty
    I took her rather nifty
    Down to an incubator
    Where thirty minutes later
    She gave birth to a daughter
    Within a year a walker
    She looked just like her mother
    If there could be another

    And now she's two years older
    Her mother's with a soldier
    She left me when my drinking
    Became a proper stinging
    The devil came and took me
    From bar to street to bookie
    No more nights by the telly
    No more nights nappies smelling

    Alone here in the kitchen
    I feel there's something missing
    I'd beg for some forgiveness
    But begging's not my business
    And she won't write a letter
    Although I always tell her
    And so it's my assumption
    I'm really up the junction

  9. To my other favourite W.W. it’s been a pleasure working with you

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