Tony Wilson Said

Shout out to the city like Tony Wilson said

Wrong number, Chicago and New York, dial Manchester instead

We're drivin' through Rushholme, Moss Side and  Whalley Range

Get caught on the wrong side of the law in this town

They'll treat you in strange ways

He symbolized and crystallized freedom, a king with no crown

He left more than a million footprints over this town

What of Factory Records with their contracts signed in blood?

And halfway to London, he turned his car round

Somehow just knew he would

Outside The Apollo, the jewel of Ardwick Green

Stone's throw from the Boardwalk, the Hacienda

On the corner of Whitworth Street

He symbolized and crystallized freedom, a king with no crown

He left more than a million footprints over this town

Some might call it a treason, the king with no crown

And he turned to face his troubles down

To fight for our freedom, turned his Jaguar around

And the wheels kept turnin', wheels kept turnin'

To the Cottonopolis, to the Cottonopolis

Shout out to the city like Tony Wilson said

Wrong number, Chicago and New York, dial Manchester instead

Shout out Factory Records with their contracts signed in blood

It's true that not only do the good die young

But only the young die good

He symbolized and crystallized freedom, a king with no crown

He left more than a million footprints over this town

He symbolized and crystallized freedom, a king with no crown

He left more than a million footprints over this town