Creative: Manchester!

Where Coronation Street is so familiar you know it only as The Street When the cobbles are always cracked and you know they won’t get mended When every band that comes to town plays Oasis as tribute Where Wonderwall rings out from 42s when the night has ended Why are they always fixing tram lines that were fine to begin with? Why do 99p drinks mean we’ll go anywhere no matter how ‘angin? Why do old people move to Fallowfield when they know it’s full of students? Why do we wait half an hour for a bus and then still thank him? Where the club nights get rated the worst in Europe When you can’t walk down Market Street without being asked who does your electricity Where you listen to obscure music because it’s twelve quid at the academy When you’re still rooting for the Manc teams no matter how much crap you see Why do we continue to ignore the homeless population at our door? Why does it matter whether we go to MMU or Uni of? Why do we stick up for Salford but refuse to go alone? Why are we in the library on a Saturday? Well, to charge our phone Where we used to think the Arndale was an awesome maze of wonder Where there’s always a smartphone to capture last night’s blunder Where we call it a shithole but, Christ, we wouldn’t change it Where we protest any and all Tory plans to rearrange it Where we protest anything because we’re students and it’s our town Where we didn’t ride the Manchester Eye before it came down Where you can buy three coats for a tenner because they’re second hand Where the music scene flourishes no matter what band Where the council collecting your bins is considered a grand gesture Where do you come from? The North? Yeah. Manchester!