we were promised the best years of our lives all we got was name calling and fights because narrow minded fools run comprehensive schools jules was one of the chosen few whose charisma and charm seemed to carry him through but when he turned his eye on you well there was not much you could do cause he was pissing about while they were passing out their rules again and again and again his punishment was overdue julian stokes used to tell jokes spent half his time trying to make us laugh it was all fine til he crossed the line when he took the piss out of chelsea s dad she planned her sweet revenge for weeks and when it came off it was class julian stokes sobbing and soaked walked home alone from the formal dance chelseas dad was on remand for assault with intent near the taxi stand and each trip to visit him seemed to take a little longer than the last but jules was just too cool to care he would mention things that others wouldn t dare and he soon learned the price of making light of someone else s plight when nostalgia grips me it hits me in the face again and again and again that school was such an awful place julian stokes used to tell jokes spent half his time trying to make us laugh it was all fine til he crossed the line when he took the piss out of chelsea s dad she planned her sweet revenge for weeks and when it came off it was class julian stokes sobbing and soaked walked home alone from the formal dance julian julian julian stokes used to tell jokes julian stokes used to tell jokes but not anymore julian stokes he used to tell jokes but not anymore julian stokes he used to tell jokes but not anymore julian stokes he used to tell jokes but not anymore julian stokes he used to tell jokes julian