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We didn't see the summer sun, we didn't speak to any one

 The caravan was on it's own, we didn't have a telephone.

 That's why I'd never liked the Mini, that's why I'm into Sleater Kinney

 From holidays when I was small. the only thing that I recall

 Bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig

 Bottleneck at Capel Curig, Neil Morrisey's a knobhead.

 I got a job in Aberdeen, I was only seventeen

 I met a girl on halloween, she was nowhere to be seen.

 Disappeared down a sewer, I sent my brother to pursue her

 They ran away and fell in love, I hope they're in the middle of

 A bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig

 Bottleneck at Capel Curig, fate decrees they're in Hawaii.

 Now I'm living on my own, scared of dying all alone

 I haven't got a telephone, if I did it wouldn't ring.

 Seeing that I'm on the way out, I'm gonna take me for a day out

 I wanna wash away my sin, so I'm not forever in

 A bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig

 Bottleneck at Capel Curig, my shame will cause

 A bottleneck at Capel Curig, bottleneck at Capel Curig

 Bottleneck at Capel Curig - ig - ig - ig - ig.