Dexys Midnight Runners

Released: June 4, 2012

Songwriter: Mick Talbot Glen Matlock Kevin Rowland

Producer: Mick Talbot Kevin Rowland Pete Schwier

I now know no romantic situation
Will won in success, nothing
Can make me happy
No rose gardens for me
That’s not self pity, no
That’s the truth, yes that’s the truth

Nowhere is home to me
Nowhere is home to me

I was born here of an Irish family
But that in itself is not too good for me
Because national identity won’t fulfill me
I don’t fit that kind of all the pagin I read
Oh no that is not me
That’s just not me

Nowhere is home to me
Nowhere is home to me

I don’t know oh, where I belong
I’ve been all over this great big hell
I never thought there’s a place where I could be
But, it’s a lie, it’s a filthy lie

Nowhere is home to me
Nowhere is home to me

No place in the country
There’s no kind of city
Not a college ring for me
It doesn’t have appeal for me
I gotta be what I believe I can’t be
Anybody else’
I just gotta be myself
Take your Irish stereotype and shove it up your ass
Not what I want for me
I am a T bird that is she’s not for me
And now I’m gonna be free
Come on
Everybody say

I want to be everything, I wanna be the man of my dreams
And I can’t be a fucking stereotype
But it’s lonely being here and living this fight
But I won’t give in
I will not cave in
Until I become free
Until I become free

Ayay, ayay, ayay ah
I will become free
Ayay, ayay, ayay ah
I will become free
Yes, yes
Ayay, ayay, ayay ah
I will become free

Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their common nickname; sometimes styled with and sometimes without an apostrophe) are an English pop band with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known in the UK for their songs “Come On Eileen” and “Geno”, both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dexys went through numerous personnel changes over the course of three albums and thirteen singles, with only singer/songwriter/co-founder Kevin Rowland remaining in the band through all of the transitions and only Rowland and “Big” Jim Paterson (trombone) appearing on all of the albums. By 1985, the band consisted only of Rowland and long-standing members Helen O'Hara (violin) and Billy Adams (guitar). The band broke up in 1987, with Rowland becoming a solo artist. After two failed restart attempts, Dexys was reformed by Rowland in 2003 with new members, as well as a few returning members from the band’s original lineup (known as Dexys Mark I). Dexys released their fourth album in 2012 and a fifth followed in 2016.

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