The Party House Diaries

 

The Party House Diaries

Unruly man boys making lots of noise

Shouting and laughing they kept me awake

With monotonous beats rowdy oi ois

I lay abed waiting for things to break

4 am. I couldn’t get back to sleep

Just shut the fuck up a woman’s voice cried

I got up pulled back the blinds had a peep

Saw people in hoodies standing outside

Somebody called out I couldn’t see who

I wondered if he was yelling at me

Night was lit up by lights of flashing blue

Went downstairs at dawn made a cuppa tea

Took it upstairs clambered back into bed

Not before shutting the open fanlight

I tried to read but kept dozing instead

It'll be kicking off again tonight

Mid-day Monday it’s presently quiet

All of the tenants must be sleeping sound

Last night sounded like a prison riot

Without any prison officers around

Be careful sir I was told by the law

There’re some dangerous people in there

No supervision no one’s keeping score

Emailing the council gets you nowhere

There’s a landlord lives many miles away

A greedy profiteering millionaire

As long as he receives his monthly pay

He doesn’t give a toss about aftercare

I don’t wanna judge but I feel let down

This used to be a decent neighbourhood

Now it’s becoming the rough end of town

A meeting place for the up to no good

The ruckus carries on all through the week

And the weeks after they bawl and they shout

Night after night and it comes to a peak

At 5 am. when the rage has burnt out

And I think as they finish their carouse

A halfway house with no overseer

Is really no more than a party house

There’ll be no rehabilitation here