The Only Boy Racer Left On the Island

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