Where the Hell are We Going to Live? (Paul Wright)

Paul Wright was born and lived in Walthamstow, where he worked for a time as a reporter on the Waltham Forest Guardian newspaper. He wrote 'Where The Hell Are We Going To Live?' at a time when so-called slum terraces were being pulled down and replaced by horrible tower blocks.

Well the May that I was married
We tried to settle down
And all we need's half a million quid
for to buy a two up and two down
We were on the council waiting list
number six thousand and five
We're due for a house in 2001
that's assuming we're both still alive.

Where the hell are we gonna live
where the hell are we gonna live?
Some miserable mansion up in the sky
walking around in a block a mile high,
Tellin' my friends that I'd much rather die
where the hell are we gonna live?

Sung by Vin Garbutt and The Levellers