Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under (Official Video)
People Watching — The new album.
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LYRICS
I remember the sickness was forever
I remember snuff videos
Cold Septembers, the distances we covered
The fist fights on the beach, the bizzies round us up
Do it all again next week
Embryonic love
The first time that it scarred
Embarrass yourself for someone
Crying like a child
And the boy who kicked Tom’s head in
Still bugs me now
That’s the thing it lingers
And claws you when you’re down
I was far too scared to hit him
But I would hit him in a heartbeat now
That’s the thing with anger
It begs to stick around
So it can fleece you of your beauty
And leave you spent with nowt to offer
It makes you hurt the ones who love you
You hurt them like they’re nothing
See I spent my teens enraged
Spiralling in silence
And arm myself with a grin
Cos I was always the fuckin’ joker
Buried in the humour
Amongst the white noise and boys’ boys
Locker room talkin’ lads’ lads
Drenched in cheap drink and snide fags
A mirrored picture of my old man
Oh god the kid’s a dab hand
Canny chanter but he looks sad
God, the kid looks so sad
She said the debt, the debt, the debt
So I thought about shifting gear
And how she wept and wept and wept
Luck came and died round here
I see my mother
The DWP see a number
She cries on the floor encumbered
I’m seventeen going under
Taken from the Mercury Prize nominated album Seventeen Going Under
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Music video by Sam Fender performing Seventeen Going Under (Live At The BRIT Awards 2022). A Polydor Records recording; © 2022 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited
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Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under (Official Video)
People Watching — The new album.
Out now: samfender.lnk.to/PeopleWatchingYT
Official SF store: samfender.lnk.to/PWStoreYT
Buy tickets for the People Watching Tour across the UK, Europe & North America: samfender.com/tour
Join Sam Fender Social Club: SamFender.lnk.to/mailinglistID
Follow Sam:
Instagram: SamFender.lnk.to/InstaID
Facebook: SamFender.lnk.to/FBID
Twitter: SamFender.lnk.to/TwitterID
Spotify: SamFender.lnk.to/SpotifyID
Sign up to Sam’s mailing list: SamFender.lnk.to/mailinglistID
LYRICS
I remember the sickness was forever
I remember snuff videos
Cold Septembers, the distances we covered
The fist fights on the beach, the bizzies round us up
Do it all again next week
Embryonic love
The first time that it scarred
Embarrass yourself for someone
Crying like a child
And the boy who kicked Tom’s head in
Still bugs me now
That’s the thing it lingers
And claws you when you’re down
I was far too scared to hit him
But I would hit him in a heartbeat now
That’s the thing with anger
It begs to stick around
So it can fleece you of your beauty
And leave you spent with nowt to offer
It makes you hurt the ones who love you
You hurt them like they’re nothing
See I spent my teens enraged
Spiralling in silence
And arm myself with a grin
Cos I was always the fuckin’ joker
Buried in the humour
Amongst the white noise and boys’ boys
Locker room talkin’ lads’ lads
Drenched in cheap drink and snide fags
A mirrored picture of my old man
Oh god the kid’s a dab hand
Canny chanter but he looks sad
God, the kid looks so sad
She said the debt, the debt, the debt
So I thought about shifting gear
And how she wept and wept and wept
Luck came and died round here
I see my mother
The DWP see a number
She cries on the floor encumbered
I’m seventeen going under
Taken from the Mercury Prize nominated album Seventeen Going Under
#SamFender
Music video by Sam Fender performing Seventeen Going Under (Live At The BRIT Awards 2022). A Polydor Records recording; © 2022 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited
vevo.ly/tPiya0
