Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Official Audio)
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↓ LYRICS ↓
[Intro]
To your soul
To your soul
Cry
Cry
Cry
[Verse 1]
You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face
[Verse 2]
Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
[Verse 3]
Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy
You were the one that they'd talk about around town as they put you down
[Verse 4]
And as hard as they would try they'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them, just to your soul
No, you never cried to them, just to your soul
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Crying to your soul)
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Crying to your soul)
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Crying to your soul)
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
[Bridge]
Cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
[Verse 5]
You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
#BronskiBeat #SmalltownBoy #TheAgeOfConsent
80's music was fucking good, I'll admit that.
Got that right!! Love it all like I did then. Metal rock synth new wave early punk. Its all good
Yes,I'll admit that,too,but that was the only thing good about that decade, the music
🦜 🦜 🦜
👍👍
Nothing else?@@moongypsyguerrero1925
Im here for the synths
vibing hard ngl
so you don't care about things such as melody and lyrics?
@@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet All i hear is "cry, boy, cryyyyyyyy" so much cry only the synths keeps me up
@@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet melody is the same as synths noob
THE SYNTHS
No wonder why the 80s are the best, music pop was futurist and so electronic. Proud to be born in the 80s.
I was born in the 80s but wish I was born in 50s/60s/70s so I could have experienced it properly
@@Just_another_Euro_dude 90s was great as well! 80s/90s my favourite decades for music
@Robert don't forget 60's & 70's with great groups like KRAFTWERK
Same Malek
@@Just_another_Euro_dude lkkoknk((9ihl(kk9k9((kk
RIP Steve Bronski
Your songs have meant a lot to so many.
You sure made a difference!
Jimmy Somerville is now sole living member... Steve died, Larry Steinbachek as well...
So sad. His legacy lives on though, RIP
how did the other members die?
@@leesaunders1930 Larry Steinbachek died in 2017 due a cancer. Steve Bronski perished in 2021. The apartment where he lived caught fire.
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I have no idea why I love 80's music so much I was born in the 90's. Spanish household they didn't even listen to this. I love it
Maybe because it's just one great song.
i was in born in the late 2010’s. i listen to this song alongside quite a a lot other 80’s-90’s music and it is my favourite genre, it attracts me so much that i feel a different way listening to it.
@@GiannisEliabro is like 10
@@scribblecloudcan’t hate tho he has taste
Same. I'm a 90s kid, but I'm obsessed with the 80s era.
It feels like I time travelled in 80s
2024 & I am still here .. bring back the good times .. music is not what it used to be
We need more synths in todays music😇😂
Facts 👌
Regardless of sexual orientation or to what generation you're from, just about everyone should be able to appericate this gem. Just hits ya in the feels.
So true, but for anyone who broke with their family (for any other reason, not only for being queer), this song definitely hits different. And for anyone else, it is probably the closest to conveying this feeling in an audible and danceable way.
as a bisexual person i just cannot listen to this 😔 /j
I'm a Christian... Doesn't mean I can't listen to good music.
I use to listen to this with my dad while we drove endlessly on the highway...such a good memory to be born on the 80's...
dega723 it’s a gay anthem. Have words with ur dad
Ben Dodd lol!!
@@bendodd8325 ahahah very funny....arsehole ; )
@@angelalane8660 WTF ? Don't know what the fuck Jesus has to do with anything ?
@@vinzelrato It's a saying, dumbass. A "come to Jesus meeting" is like a serious discussion. Stupid.
The first 56 seconds of this song is just epic
The first 5:04 minutes are just epic.
Agreed
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry
You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face
Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy
You were the one that they'd talk about around town as they put you down
And as hard as they would try they'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them, just to your soul
No, you never cried to them, just to your soul
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Crying to your soul)
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Crying to your soul)
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Crying to your soul)
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry
You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
This song transforms me to another dimension.
Me too
Same here
Same
Been on a 80's binge for the past year, i gotta say this era of music is hella enjoyable
Me too hahaha
I think everyone needs to remember that this song isn't about GTA V or GLOW. It is about a boy from Glasgow who had to leave his city because he wasn't accepted for being gay. Thats why the song is severely relevant throughout 120bpm.
THANKS! Someone who actually knows something.
What the hells glow
Mete Tural Netflix show set in the 80s about female wrestling
Lotus Abagander alright so porn for weird people
Não gostei do video
His voice is just magical
This music has a hauntingly nostalgic sound to me being a kid in the 80s. My memory and the fantasies I had in my head get blended together when I hear this music and think back to that time.
I was a kid in the 2000s in a homophobic country. I have never been able to fully live my life the way I would've wanted to, without facing the consequences of being different. I cry today at 28 because even now I am that smalltown boy. I wish things were different.
@virtualbeing, same here and remembering back to my youth and recalling what was important to me back then and the things like music, that made it so much more special.
Just heard this while watching the movie “Parting Glances” from 86 and it took me right back to those years. Glad o loved those magical times in San Francisco and the world was so much different.
My dads favourite song and also playing this at his funeral next week ❤
Im sorry for your lost from belguim
Im sorry for your lost from france
🙏
Im sorry
I'm so sorry for your loss. Gotta say: your day had excellent musical tastes! This is a perfect funeral song, too.😘
I was driving in GTA 5 and started listening to this song, and that's why I love Non_Stop Pop (radio station in GTA 5
It's reminds me of Capital FM
i only listen to nsp and the 80’s rock one
X2
The best gta radio 😂👍✨
The only one I Play 👍👍👍👍👌
80s music was epic. Young people these days don't even know how transcendent the music was. It gave you goosebumps. It took you to other planes of existence. It made you survive this muck we call life.
Okay boomer
@@evancomer5389dude.. I'm from the 90s and even I can respect what this song stands for. Just because a person was born in a certain era doesnt mean one cant accept music from other eras... I love all walks of music even though some arnt what I'm Into.. but I'd prefer the option of becoming educated than being ignorant. I have a friend who feels he isnt safe it he came out to his parents. I havnt been there and I'm lucky for all of it but I cant understand how ones parents fail time and time again to take onwer ship of their creation. Its mading that anyone let alone your god dang parents could do something so inhumane.
I am from the genZ and I find 80s songs really great.... Can you recommend some 80s songs which you like?
Survivorship bias.
I 1000% agree!
RIP, Steve Bronski. Smalltown Boy is one of the best (and underrated) songs of the 1980’s.
So true.
Made the 80s what it was without it wouldn’t be the 1980s :)
im only 14 nearly 15 and i completely agree
...all a time.
Can’t be described as underrated - over 280 million Spotify streams!
Who’s here in 2024 listening this musical gem? 😊
🙋♂️
I'm here on a reccomendation from Lyzette G.
Gee, an original comment
Me it's really a nice vibe song ❤
Which year had the best songs from back then
10 seconds into this and I am magically transported back to 1984, listening to this gem on the radio.
If a time machine existed, I would go back to the 80s in a heartbeat.
Who's with me ?
I'll go!
I wasn’t born yet but id still go
Take me with you!!
I was born in 96. I would love to have experienced the 80s.
I’m there brother…
I really like the fact that people discovered many songs like this due to GTA. Videogames can be a wonderful source of music, just as my case - GTA SA showed me tons of amazing songs maybe 12 or 13 years ago, and now you can see me, practically obsessed with lots and lots of genres.
Haha, same here! Born in 1997, but I know a lot of old songs - thanks to my parents and GTA games :)
GTA 4 The Journey introduced me to so much.
Agreed. I credit my love of country music primarily to the hours I spent with KROSE in SA
Actually true. I played GTA Vice City Stories on psp and i fell for 80s music
almost every song i've learned on piano is from a video game ost
It's an absolutely brilliant song. Hauntingly beautiful with that stunning falsetto voice.
👍👍👍
I used to jam this when I was 16 and still jam it at age 55!
This song really makes me miss being young and in love 💔
Seemed a lot more significant at that time didnt it.
Ahh the 80s. When the ❄️ was pure and the vibes were 👌🏽
I didn't get this from GTA. I didn't know this was like a gay anthem.
I just heard it n fukn loved it. Stirs some serious emotions
Same here
Saaaammmmeeeee
Same
Same
Same here... shocked I've never heard it since I played the crap out of GTA. Must be listening to the wrong radio station lo.
my mum is a genius for introducing me to her 80s record collection🙌🙌
The 80s was the pinnacle decade for pop music. Sure glad I got to experience all of it and remember it to.
What a tune!! Am not gay but this song is so empowering!
And you don't have to be gay to like and appreciate such a great , memorable tune /song .
' always a lonely boy ' - I can really identify with that line , ' girl ' in this case !
❤
Absolutely timeless, classic, beautiful record.
I tear up nearly every time I hear this song. We've come a long way but there are still young people who have been shunned or even kicked out by their families and communities, myself included, I can only hope we keep improving. If you're reading this and feeling the same way just know you are not alone.
I know how you feel, this song is very relatable to me as well. It's really sad that we still face these issues. And, my home country continues to go backwards rather than make progress. I hope someday there will be freedom 🙏
Imagine trading your entire life for your own sins and delusions lol
No wonder they kicked you out, you deserved it.
@@vadimmorozov I'm also from Russia. The laws they continue to pass here break my heart, I'm so tired.
Solidarity 🙏💗
@@MitsurugiR Youre just a sad little bigot living in your own bubble of hatred. Its almost pitiful.
It's not about you
80's forever ! i remember !
Gay/straight, what does it matter, music that can can take you to a time, place, person irrespective of all else, is something to be cherished.
Who cares about sexuality this song is good
You straight boys are such losers lmao 😂
This is always a great song in any club period :) play it people will dance till they can’t dance anymore one of the best
Na we do tf u mean cuz
The music doesn’t say anything about gay things, why people say this is a gay music
Among the most beautiful music ever written, of any genre.
This song hits so different thank you god for everything you given me provided for me and all the protection you given me in this world I know it’s full of wickedness but i appreciate you not ever letting me slip up and my health for I appreciate it you know I try my best to stay in my own lane
This song is perfect when you live in a small town that’s depressing and you are depressed. You leave home from your parents and take a drive in your Toyota Corolla to find a better place.
At least you had a car.
@@PianoGesang underrated comment 👍
I live in a small town and I know what you mean. It can be very depressing. I live in Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts. There's actually a movie with the same name that was filmed here. It's a nice little summer beach town but at the same time it's kinda depressing if you live here and aren't a tourist. It's just the same narrow minded people doing the same things every day. Same routine. Nothing ever changes here. Sometimes I dream about running away to LA or somewhere.
Only gays are depressed so you must be one
And 10 mins after you drive your old toyota car suddenly stops and can't be moved again so you go back to the small town and live there forever
This came on as I was driving down the highway past Sandy Shores and it was just idyllic with the moon above and the stars dazzling while I cruised past traffic. The song picked up with the "run away" chorus as I closed in on the Los Santos skyline.
Were you trevor phillips? 😄 great song though gotta love it!
I heard this when it was raining and dawn as Micheal, such a crazy experience
I was doing the exact thing on the route to palito bay and I had the in game sunset going it was pretty dope
I love listening to this song when I'm drifting (in real life too)
2:40 - 3:00 is my favorite part of the song.
Stop asking who's still listening in 2024,we never left.
Good one ☝️
Periodt.
Lmao. Couldn’t say it any better 😍
Amen
exactly, 80's songs are still getting played on the radio until now and they are still bangers
Will forever remind me of my mum and times we have had listening to this ❤
Ironic how a beautifully sad piece of music, no matter one's orientation, can bring back memories of halcyon days during 80's-90's club life. RIP Steve Bronski.
This song will always be a banger 🔥
it is not only a hymn for gay people, but for misfits and outcast toys around the world. for girls and boys, who are eager for more than what they got. metal, rock community, other guys who needs to leave their burnt out towns and villages with only hopes in their hearts. I am a metalhead, I will always be. yet, this song is limitless for me to listen to. and what more, I just really dig the simple as hell, but charming drum play. have a nice day, all of you
The Paradise Lost version is perfection imo
I am gay and was absolutely stunned when this song was first released in 1984. I was 16 then.
Why do thegays pick their noses a lot?
This was a number 1 hit in the Netherlands and I played it a lot as a DJ and also danced to it.
I don't understand why many people comment whether they are straight or gay, what difference does that make?
You're human and you enjoy this song and that's what it's all about. 😉
We miss the days dancing in Utrech at the Cartouche!
Another 80s keyboard gold gem !! missing this sound today,,,,,,
This song has been my soul since I first heard it when I was 15.
An anthem for everyone, who had to leave their Home, way too early, to find the truth on their own. Hope y'll found your Peace too.
Volume no máximo, e só felicidade.
Smoking weed while listening to this hits different… 🖤
An absolute masterpiece
Gta 5✊🏻
This one on "Elite 6".. Just amazing🇧🇷🔥🇵🇹
Euphoria>>>>>>>
This song hit my ears tonight in the grocery store and took me back to the days of alt rock in the 80's. Back when the artists wrote their own music and sang about what they cared about. They put their emotions, hearts and souls into their music and I loved it. Lucky for me, there was an independent alt rock radio station just north of Cincinnati where I live. Called 97X The Future of Rock and Roll - WOXY in Oxford Ohio. Found all this greatness and never looked back!
Did you dance down the isle and run off any gen zers 😂😂😂😂 cuz I definitely would!! And do 😅
Ahh, the good old days . What a tune . Bronski Beat . Small town boy.
this tune takes me back to my school days in the early 1980s a tune from better majical days!
Jimmy Somerville, legendary, that voice
Gta always recognise master piece ❤
Loved this song as a child. As a 20 something and hearing it again on the QAF soundtrack made me smile and nostalgic. Now I hear it and understand just how ahead of their time they were for being out and proud while it was dangerous to be so.
Despite being born in 1999 I absolutely love 80s music like this
I'm straight, but I enjoy the song, especially while playing GTA V
I don’t think your sexuality has anything to do this song. But okay straighty.
@brandie the song is literally about a gay boy leaving town because he isn’t accepted lmao
@@brandiehercules684 Uh, maybe listen to the lyrics or see the official video to understand the comment better . . .
@@erniebuchinski3614the music doesn’t say anything about gay thing
I was 8-18 during the 80’s. Best decade ever. Music is like a time machine for me. Man I miss those days.
Born in 91 and I feel way closer to the 80s generation than my own. Had older brothers, that probably helped, and a mom from Belgium who loved pop, new wave, disco, type music.
@@mathewbascom1811
That’s cool. My moms family is of Belgian decent. All of the great 80s music is literally at the touch of a button on the Internet, you’re lucky that you can experience that. In my day we had to wait for a cassette tape to come out and you couldn’t always find it growing up in a small town. Do some research and there’s some really great music from the 80s that you will probably enjoy.
i agree about missing those days i was 10-20 during the 80s
Great music doesn't get lost
Grand Theft Auto V has some of the greatest songs of all time.
I am a heterosexual 56 year old female and I have been listening to this song since 1984, I have the cassette let me tell you this is just a great song. I gives you feels, it is a great dance song and it rocks. Just love it no matter who you are. :)
Donna Dawson Agreed I just heard it again in my grocery shop and had to bust out a few 80s dance moves down the aisle. Such a great song😉
I find it funny, but why is sexuality relevant to liking a song? :p
@@julievrhackzor respect from a 28 year old heterosexual
Im hetro too, my male friend ended up telling me he was gay and thought id never speak to him again, and here we are after lots of time apart, 35 yrs later and the best of friends
@@PedroSousa-np9wp the song is about a gay dude.
damn, i never realised before how deep those lyrics are
una delle canzoni più sottovalutate a mio parere, ma ha la capacitá di farti viaggiare con la mente, incarna perfettamente tutte le sonorità degli anni '80.
Elite vibes🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
...cry to your soul...damn that's deep, this is a good song...and his voice is awesome and I won't shout it but I can say that I like this song
I was that boy ...to this day the past haunts me ...
You're still here. And that is something to definitely celebrate for. Celebrate how strong you were and are to keep going no matter how the past treated you. You should be most proud of yourself 🗿
Love sent your way from a total stranger ❤
Gayyyyyyy
live in today, nothing that happened prior to matters its done, gone etc.
I almost lost it when he went 'CRYYYYY!!!' Such pure talent in Jimmy Sommerville's vocals
I am 23 and it hits hard 😢😢
I am going to visit this commit after 10 years
This song had has a power ⚡
my mom and i used to listen to this song when i was growin up, it was one of her favorites in the 80s and it’s one of the countless gems she passed on to me in my youth. can never get enough
We all have that kind of story I swear. It’s crazy
One of the best songs of the 80s or any decade. Even more powerful with the video. Love it
Credo sinceramente che questa sia una delle più belle canzoni mai scritte e cantate in qualsiasi lingua del mondo... 💙
La vedo molto speciale personalmente, non può essere più bella del che già è.
Euphoria got me here
same !
а я русский
Same!
That party scene with this song was amazing.
80' ❤ The best!!
80S RULE !!!!
Masterpiece.
Absolute my fave 80s tune!!
This song sounds so modern, like it could come out today. And it's 40 years old!
Merci GTA !!! Des musiques légendaire
Love this song...there's nothing like the 80s!❤
I can recall this playing in “Gotcha!”(1985) although I first originally heard it on Music choice in 2005 for the very first time! and was in awe of the sincerity and thought process. and around 7 or so years ago i saw a video filmed in Berlin..a street musician was performing this iconic track, and “Jimmy Somerville” steps rite into view and sings his heart out!!!!!! Talk about extremely memorable 🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎹
80’s my best era🤘🏽
im still here rocking in 2024 and i plan to be rocking here in 2025 as well, Cheers to the good ol days...
Just watched this gay movie called “Parting Glances” from 1986 and they used this song. I’m surprised o never saw that movie and was so happy to hear this great song and used to play this and other Bronski Beat song when it was new and not many knew about them.
Now I have to buy the album and single bc these songs were a big part of my life.
I grew up listening to this and slowly over time I learned why it meant so much to me. I eventually went through an 80's moment in the early-00's when I was in my teens, and it's always just kinda kept coming back into my life. What a tragically beautiful song. I think on some level everyone can relate.
I like this jam, this jam clearly tells a story of triumph. Guilio u couldn't be more right.
This is a BEAUTIFUL song, coming from the BRONX NYC STREETS, no matter what it’s about the song is AMAZING!!
& im a Hip Hop junkie.
Back when songs were allowed to have emotion and be over 3 minutes long
Heard this on euphoria it instantly Brought back childhood memories happy days loved the 80s 😊
I just heard this song in the movie “Parting Glances” from 86 and took me right to my youth in the 80’s.
BRING BACK 80S MUSIC
Can’t stop listening to this masterpiece
3:38
I love💘the 80's! Song is GOLDEN
This should have been included in the movie Drive with Gosling
This amazing song makes remember watching and listening to this music video clip on Mtv when I was much younger and things were more simple and more different and that unbelievable piece of art was playing 24/7 everywhere amazing times to be a kid.....!!!!!!! It brings back so many memories of the past....!!!!!!!R.I.P. Steve Bronski you will never be forgotten you are living through our hearts and through our mind's forever.....!!!!!!! This song and this beat are one of those that if you hear it once stays always in your head and in your heart forever and ever......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lembro dos dvd que meu pai comprava de 80 clipes de Flashbacks.. essa era uma que eu e minha irmã ouvíamos todos dos dias..
que nostalgia
@@biancaparminonde3016 bastante
This is a type of music you would hear in a shopping mall during the 80ś, i could absolutely shop to this!
Captured the 80's in a few minutes
GTA5 then Baby Reindeer- Brought Me Back Pure Nostalgia 80s
Oh how did i miss this classic masterpiece 😂😅😮