One of my favourite opening lines to a song, reminds me of my first date with my ex. Still the best days of my life, a grand don’t come for free. Great story, album, and song. True classic, will forever be on my playlist
I remember when you used to drink in Barnet, when eddy n his bro ended up being your backing band. Listened to your albums during hard times n now listen to them during the good. It's funny the journeys we all take but I hope where ever you are Mike your doing alright bud. Thanks for the years of beats... (Keep up the garage too!)
The concept album that this song is taken from, "A Grand Don't Come For Free" & "Original Pirate Material" (his debut album) are his finest 2 albums in mho... I had them both on CD when they came out in 2001 & 2004... Still love 'em... Timeless... Like all good music, it knows no boundaries.... 😎☝🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🎤🎶🎵
@@WedgePee So it was... I just double checked it on Spotify & it came out on March 18th 2002, apparently... I was just going from my own memory in my last comment... That's when I thought that it was....
Man i grew up with the streets on the streets with my m8s and dry your eyes m8 came at a pivotal moment.... came bk for memory blast in 2020. Mike skinner!!! Lyrical poet
Love this song. Empty cans. In my opinion, and I've said before, it's an absolute classic. I will bang out the hardest way to make an easy living of course. Iam hoping for one more album.
Looking for the fishing video which seems to have disappeared within the last week, maybe I just forgot the title and it’s not coming up anywhere for some reason 🤷♂️
So I reckon this album is quite simply the best put together album ever, there will never be another like this ever, imagine a woke version of this 😂😂😂😂😂
Is just me that my favourite song is go get out of my please and actually give me back my keys but I'll be proper angry if your not back later on your knees 🤣
Cause her last relationship fucked her up. Got hurt majorly, finds it tough to trust. Looked at the ashtray, then looked back up, Spinning it away on the tabletop. She looked much fitter than Saturday just. She worked in JD's with dan. Back then I figured she was pretty damn rough, But she was only wearing her work stuff. And in these clothes she looked more than buff, She stirred her straw, sat up to adjust. I told her I thought it was important, That you could get lost in conversation. Chattin shit, sittin in, oblivion With that person who's your special one. She said she was the worst pool player under the sun, But blokes go easy so she always won. I saw this thing on ITV the other week, Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen She's playing with her hair, well regularly, So I reckon I could well be in. She didn't look too bored with what I was saying. Her hair looked much better than the other day. She had her fingers 'round her hair, playin'. I Saw on the telly that's a good indication. She didn't offer to buy the next drink though, "Nay." Suppose that's just our girl's way. I'm trying to think what else I could say, Peelin' the label off, spinning the ashtray. Yeah actually, yes, she did look pretty neat. Her perfume smelled expensive and sweet. I felt like my hair looked a bit cheap, Wished I'd had it cut back last week. She kept giving me this look, cause she would speak. Was she only friendly, or was she a keep? Asked her if she wanted the same again to drink. Started to turn and get up out my seat. I saw this thing on ITV the other week, Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen She's playin with her hair, well regularly, So I reckon I could well be in. She said that her close mates all were Always the most important thing to her. I said I thought it was a bit more blurred. She asked what I meant by that as she stirred. I told her about the money and what had occurred With it going missing from the living room, so. With my best mates all there standing by, Right where I left it, under their eyes. So surely one of them might have spied What happened to my money at that time. I felt like they were all smiling on the side. She was like "fair play" she couldn't say why. She didn't know what all my mates were like. And I said she just might be right. Wish I had someone I could always rely, Someone to get lost chattin to all night. I saw this thing on ITV the other week, Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen She's playin with her hair, well regularly, So I reckon I could well be in. As I walked back with more drinks to our place, She had her phone stuck to the side of her face. I sat for a minute while she chatted away 'Bout somethin with her mom and her birthday. Played for a bit with the same ashtray, Thought about things while I sat and waited. It was nice to chat about the shit in my head, Someone who just listens to you instead. I looked at the barman, wiping down again, Looked at the football on the TV set, Trying to look like I weren't just waiting there For her conversation to come to an end. I look at my watch and realized right then That, for three hours, been in conversation. Before she put her phone down, she switched to silent, And we carried on chattin for more than that again. I saw this thing on ITV the other week, Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen She's playin with her hair, well regularly, So I reckon I could well be in. I saw this thing on ITV the other week, Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen She's playin with her hair, well regularly, So I reckon I could well be in. Source: Musixmatch
I can’t believe the streets only have 80,00 subscribers.., different generation I guess , so glad I was part of it , youngers live in a pretty sad generation tbh , how many likes your profile picture gets , overly edited photos & TH-camrs making millions & millions having next to no talent 😅
I've wondered for YEARS why this version of the song edits the word 'cheap.' Her perfume smelled expensive and sweet, But I felt like my hair looked a bit BLEEP WIsh I'd had it cut back last week. Why? WHY?
This video is awful and nothing looks like how the song is painted in my head. Simone is too business like and the bar looks like it's for doctors, lawyer, and other professionals.
yeah, it's like the blinded by the lights video. that song sounded like it was at a night club, but the video made it look like a wedding which didn't make much sense
That's the whole point. He's trying to impress a new girl. He's uncomfortable and looking for reassurance. If you knew the streets from day one you would understand.
david noonan I think that’s part of the beauty of the song. The Streets are always able to tap into certain mundane realities of the way we act. I think it’s as much a song that sheds light on the way blokes ceaselessly analyse behaviour like that instead of going with the flow sometimes.
AAHH well-done mike and the streets crew im took write back to when i bought this album on CD from some guy at my work sold dodgy fireworks tae £3 it cost original pirate material 😂 thanks The Streets 🦏🙏🏼
This is one of the greatest albums of all time.
One of the greatest songs of all time, no doubt, that beat is transcendent and one of the most beautiful hooks ever. Pure magic.
Yeah much underrated song!
Definitely, quite magical
My whole young teenage years in an album. Beautiful
This is a UK urban classic. Skinner at his best. Love you bruv
Ikr
Banger
Yep
One of my favourite opening lines to a song, reminds me of my first date with my ex. Still the best days of my life, a grand don’t come for free. Great story, album, and song. True classic, will forever be on my playlist
1, r y over her 2,what did u guys do
@@FoFilm5she had a fiancé and then recently passed away. This song and album gets to me now more than ever. She was a beautiful person.
I'm sad this has less then a million views, I've got a feeling this will come back round again.
Empty cans. Mike's best song. I love the song. It's epic. It paints a huge picture. This is the start of what was.
A masterpiece like 90% of the songs on this album 👌
The early 2000's in one song 🎵 🇮🇪
A great video,from a fantastic album,grew up with this guy and his 🎶 music
Love the progression and story this album tells
I remember when you used to drink in Barnet, when eddy n his bro ended up being your backing band. Listened to your albums during hard times n now listen to them during the good. It's funny the journeys we all take but I hope where ever you are Mike your doing alright bud.
Thanks for the years of beats...
(Keep up the garage too!)
Legend
This song hits hard. Lyrics are one off a kind. Defo in my top 5
The concept album that this song is taken from, "A Grand Don't Come For Free" & "Original Pirate Material" (his debut album) are his finest 2 albums in mho... I had them both on CD when they came out in 2001 & 2004... Still love 'em... Timeless... Like all good music, it knows no boundaries.... 😎☝🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🎤🎶🎵
OPM was 2002. But yes, they’re fantastic albums.
@@WedgePee So it was... I just double checked it on Spotify & it came out on March 18th 2002, apparently... I was just going from my own memory in my last comment... That's when I thought that it was....
@@vanman757 Has It Come to This was released as a single on 8 October 2001.
@@WedgePee Maybe, that's where the confusion stems from...
That's how I got into the uk vibe💯💯🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️ thank you Mike skinner
Proper underrated song 🎵✅🔥🔥🔥
Man i grew up with the streets on the streets with my m8s and dry your eyes m8 came at a pivotal moment.... came bk for memory blast in 2020. Mike skinner!!! Lyrical poet
Me too ✌️
Having heard this since I last played PGR 3 on the xbox 360 back in 2008
All the songs are genius telling a story and making it sound amazing even now this guy is still hitting it
Great song
I saw this thing on ITV the other week!
*ovva
Skinner at his best
Streets old school
Amazing
What an album!
Everything this man has done is top notch
Man this was a good time in the world
Timeless
My fav streets song tbf ❤
Love this song. Empty cans. In my opinion, and I've said before, it's an absolute classic. I will bang out the hardest way to make an easy living of course. Iam hoping for one more album.
he just released an album last year
@@theone77443 I know B055. But A grand don't come for free, or the hardest way. I want something like that. Two classics.
still so damn good
I just love the song and it's meaning
It's actually nice 💙💔
my fave song off that awesome masterpiece !
A classic. Up skinner. A grand don't come for 3.
Still genus
"As I walked back with more drinks to our place, she had her phone stuck to the side of her face." Genius :)
💔 never going to be the same...
Is sad i never hear this song in uk radio
UK represent
Simple genius
Love ❤️ this song 🎵
I still have this on tape
Out of nowhere this popped into my mind had to search for it and download
Rip trinidy
ingenious, shame its the censored version tho!
HenryManson snh
Love it
Tune
September 2022 still a banger
I knew MIke was a real one when the 'she worked at JD's, with Dan' bar dropped.
Looking for the fishing video which seems to have disappeared within the last week, maybe I just forgot the title and it’s not coming up anywhere for some reason 🤷♂️
❤❤
Skinner: Argentina loves you really ♥
i wanna go back
So I reckon this album is quite simply the best put together album ever, there will never be another like this ever, imagine a woke version of this 😂😂😂😂😂
Is just me that my favourite song is go get out of my please and actually give me back my keys but I'll be proper angry if your not back later on your knees 🤣
Orrr I tell u, these numbers, subscriptions etc, do not do The Streets justice.
je ne comprend rien à ce qu'il dit
la musique de THE STREETS est exceptionnelle
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If this was the only Streets track you ever heard, you'd wonder how Skinner ever got so big.
Absolutely not. It’s got all the things that make him great and stand out from the rest.
I fucking love this.
Cause her last relationship fucked her up...
You perform as good as you sing, ALRIGHT
good old days ,could well be in right ?
imagine being a twin and going through that shit with your brother
LOVE LOVE SMACK I'M THE MOMENT
2019(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.”
Cause her last relationship fucked her up.
Got hurt majorly, finds it tough to trust.
Looked at the ashtray, then looked back up,
Spinning it away on the tabletop.
She looked much fitter than Saturday just.
She worked in JD's with dan.
Back then I figured she was pretty damn rough,
But she was only wearing her work stuff.
And in these clothes she looked more than buff,
She stirred her straw, sat up to adjust.
I told her I thought it was important,
That you could get lost in conversation.
Chattin shit, sittin in, oblivion
With that person who's your special one.
She said she was the worst pool player under the sun,
But blokes go easy so she always won.
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playing with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
She didn't look too bored with what I was saying.
Her hair looked much better than the other day.
She had her fingers 'round her hair, playin'.
I Saw on the telly that's a good indication.
She didn't offer to buy the next drink though, "Nay."
Suppose that's just our girl's way.
I'm trying to think what else I could say,
Peelin' the label off, spinning the ashtray.
Yeah actually, yes, she did look pretty neat.
Her perfume smelled expensive and sweet.
I felt like my hair looked a bit cheap,
Wished I'd had it cut back last week.
She kept giving me this look, cause she would speak.
Was she only friendly, or was she a keep?
Asked her if she wanted the same again to drink.
Started to turn and get up out my seat.
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
She said that her close mates all were
Always the most important thing to her.
I said I thought it was a bit more blurred.
She asked what I meant by that as she stirred.
I told her about the money and what had occurred
With it going missing from the living room, so.
With my best mates all there standing by,
Right where I left it, under their eyes.
So surely one of them might have spied
What happened to my money at that time.
I felt like they were all smiling on the side.
She was like "fair play" she couldn't say why.
She didn't know what all my mates were like.
And I said she just might be right.
Wish I had someone I could always rely,
Someone to get lost chattin to all night.
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
As I walked back with more drinks to our place,
She had her phone stuck to the side of her face.
I sat for a minute while she chatted away
'Bout somethin with her mom and her birthday.
Played for a bit with the same ashtray,
Thought about things while I sat and waited.
It was nice to chat about the shit in my head,
Someone who just listens to you instead.
I looked at the barman, wiping down again,
Looked at the football on the TV set,
Trying to look like I weren't just waiting there
For her conversation to come to an end.
I look at my watch and realized right then
That, for three hours, been in conversation.
Before she put her phone down, she switched to silent,
And we carried on chattin for more than that again.
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
Source: Musixmatch
I can’t believe the streets only have 80,00 subscribers.., different generation I guess , so glad I was part of it , youngers live in a pretty sad generation tbh , how many likes your profile picture gets , overly edited photos & TH-camrs making millions & millions having next to no talent 😅
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🎶❤️👏
💚
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THESE VIDEOS EXISTED
Why did they censor the word "cheap"?
I always thought the lyric was the UK slang for “shit” - “sheet”. It seems it could be, considering it was censored!
Eu sou o comentário brasileiro que vc está procurando kk
Project Gotham Racing 3 Memories....
He always walks like he's got to drop a deuce.
He’s a bluenose grr😮
no ad in 2019. must be a paraleluniverse video.
2019 “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore: (Monaco!!)(🇲🇨) 👀🔥🔥 -->
“human rights”
“boilerplate”
Men, blast PANTERA!!
Maybe next year sometime
I've wondered for YEARS why this version of the song edits the word 'cheap.'
Her perfume smelled expensive and sweet,
But I felt like my hair looked a bit BLEEP
WIsh I'd had it cut back last week.
Why? WHY?
SAME BACK AS A LOVE LETTER FROM A CHELSEA FAN AKA BISCH BOSCH
pealing the label off, spinning the ash tray.
sounds like a different version than the album S
Gah! I love that you guys are back but please! Check the title! "Could Be Well in(?)".
cRoxy86 Oxymoroniac wheres the prob?
Bihzy could well be in
His poshness is getting in the way. Oops.
bruv
This video is awful and nothing looks like how the song is painted in my head. Simone is too business like and the bar looks like it's for doctors, lawyer, and other professionals.
yeah, it's like the blinded by the lights video. that song sounded like it was at a night club, but the video made it look like a wedding which didn't make much sense
That's the whole point. He's trying to impress a new girl. He's uncomfortable and looking for reassurance. If you knew the streets from day one you would understand.
@@rustynail36 it's not. What about where he says about looking at the football on the TV.... There was no TV in there.
@@chocstar.007 the video tells a different story, it's not a film telling of the song
It's a piece in it's own right
Yeah to plush, always imagined this song in a normal pub bar or club
i do not understand this video
Was listening to this a year ago. Think he is reading too much into body language.
david noonan I think that’s part of the beauty of the song. The Streets are always able to tap into certain mundane realities of the way we act. I think it’s as much a song that sheds light on the way blokes ceaselessly analyse behaviour like that instead of going with the flow sometimes.
I just had a date and she's been playing with her hair well regularly
Reckon I'm in
The pianist looks like Steve Carell with a ponytail.
This awful video totally misrepresents the genius of this song. It should have been filmed in Wetherspoons.
Insert fuck and shit as required
6/10 not enough playing with hair
He's obssessing over this hair-playing thing a bit too much.
I always remember that line.
What the fuck is this
What you on about you pre-pubescent prick?
AAHH well-done mike and the streets crew im took write back to when i bought this album on CD from some guy at my work sold dodgy fireworks tae £3 it cost original pirate material 😂 thanks The Streets 🦏🙏🏼
Miss deez peepz
Tune