I’m a middle school teacher (2018). Students ask me if they can eat lunch in my classroom. I teach in an inner city Washington DC school. This is a standard that I play during lunch. Rough and tough kids will eat in silence while listening to this song. Even though I don’t ask them to be quiet. Thank you, Elbow. This song is magic.

This was played at my best mates funeral. He was definitely a lippy kid, and a gobby grown up. Bless you Wayno, sleep tight and Ill see you in the blink of an eye.

Quite possibly one of the greatest songs ever written

Highly underrated as far as I am concerned.

'The cigarette senate was everything then'... Garvey can paint an entire life experience in a single sentence. I'm humbled by what he and the guys create.

This made me cry. Music very rarely makes me cry; but this reached somewhere within me that I lost a while ago. This is the most beautiful song I have heard in a long time.

I wish I was as musically competent as that piece of tape.

This song sums up my youth growing up in the UK... I still want to build a rocket even now. Thank you Elbow for transporting me back to a happy time.

This song is like a security blanket to me...everything about it is so comforting...

after 35 years of dedication to Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Mark Knopfler, Clapton, this group hit my sweet spot in the last 5 years and will never leave me. Great music

everytime this song plays someone just happens to be cutting onions in front of my eyes. :c

Everytime....he says that line "build a rocket boys", it just shoots through my heart. Beautiful voice and song!!!!

After the very sudden passing of my father in law last February, listening to Elbow has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Collectively we all loved them but now we fight with sadness but also fond memories of seeing them live together. Summer nights at Eden Sessions in Cornwall, arena concerts in Sheffield or just generally sat around a table drinking, having a laugh and an Elbow record on in the background. This band will forever divide our families hearts with love and sorrow. They are a masterpiece, their music is a masterpiece.

Me and my father's relationship can be pretty awkward at times, I don't see him all the time now that I am at Uni in a different country and he often works abroad. But this song really brings us together. We both know the lyrics off by heart and singing it just comes so naturally. No other song can do this and feels very magical.

One of the greatest songs of our time. It's as simple as that.

When you want to singalong but decide you don’t want to interrupt a beautiful voice

Oh my word. Every time I hear this song it transports me back 25-30 years.... Oh the sweet irony, it is only now that I realise those times were golden... 😪

R.I.P. MY FRIEND CSABA VAS FROM PÉCEL (HUNGARY) WHO WAS THE BEST FRIEND OF ME. HE WAS BORN IN 1ST OF MARCH IN 1972- DIED 7 TH OF FEBRUARY IN 2014. I MISS YOU TERRIBLY, MY BROTHER! GOD HELP YOU ON YOUR WAY!!!

Bands come and go all the time, but Elbow has been with me for years. I came into this song not knowing what "Lippy Kids" even meant, and left wanting to return to my childhood with them.

What a beautiful voice this gentle man has!

I STILL get chills whenever I hear that intro.... a criminally underrated band.

Another masterpiece from the boys.

Perhaps this is the greatest music video ever made? No flash, flesh or fantasy just the simplicity of brilliant musicians performing one of the most moving and intelligent popular songs of the early 21st century. Lancashire's finest export! Well done lads.

Never mind a grammy, this song deserves a nobel prize. Beautiful!

Elbow should be what every band hopes to be one day. Words cannot describe Garvey's voice.

This is just shivers from start to finish. It makes me wish I was older so I could miss my youth. Odd. Also, what a master class in subtlety. Like many of their songs, it goes nowhere but is completely riveting. The live fade too..

Man alive, I have so much love for this song for so many reasons. Pure poetry. Plus, I'm 47 and from northern England. The lyrics resonate like a Tibetan Singing Bowl. 🙏🏾

This is one of the greatest songs of all time!

This song makes me ache with joy. I can actually feel it swelling inside me, rising and falling with the music! I can't put it into words, but I get a kind of weird feeling where I want to simultaneously let out an abrupt laugh at the same time as getting the sensation of tears welling up...?! Maybe I'm just odd.... This is perfect. Just complete perfection.

Still brings tears to my eyes after all these years.

2010 . My god life speeds by, but this track is timeless. A classic song.

I've been revisiting Elbow a lot lately, and this is just a beautiful song. Brings me to tears as I sit at my desk....

This song is nothing short of beautiful. I saw them live in Sheffield this time last week and they blew us away, few bands have musical talent to rival Elbow.

wow, this song really gets to me emotionally, it felt like only yesterday i was that kid. live life to the full

Lippy kids on the corner again Lippy kids on the corner begin Settling like crows Though I never perfected the simian stroll The cigarettes senate was everything then Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys Build a rocket boys! One long June I came down from the trees And kerbstone cool You were a freshly painted angel Walking on walls Stealing booze And hour long hungry kisses And nobody knew me at home anymore Build a rocket boys! Build a rocket boys Build a rocket boys! Lippy kids on the corner again Lippy kids on the corner begin Settling like crows And I never effected that simian stroll No Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys Build a rocket boys! One long June I came down from the trees And kerbstone cool You were a freshly painted angel Walking on walls Stealing booze and hour long hungry kisses And nobody knows me at home anymore Build a rocket boys! Build a rocket boys Build a rocket boys!

If you haven't yet, you MUST see these guys live!

I'm only 11 but still one of elbows biggest fans I've been to concerts I have signed and framed posters for most of there albums and my dream is to meet and speak to guy and the band

I love this man's voice....

voor mij een van de beste songs van Elbow

One of the best tracks I've heard in the last 10 years . . . . this is what music is about :)

So great! "Nobody knew me at home anymore." My introduction to Elbow was Grounds For Divorce on World Cafe - I thought it was something new from Peter Gabriel. And like someone else said, once you're in, you're in for good. Thank you Elbow!

I had a Gene Genie moment when I first heard this track and they don`t come around that often.Thank God for 6 music.

It struck me how we acknowledge and admire his observations when he is an adult, but i wonder how a young, artistically minded man in his early teens perceived what he was seeing right there and then. Was he so different in his thinking then as well? Or did he blend in and those memories came flooding back but translated into a language that the rest of us can't write down? Was he so self aware of how he could pick up on what we all did as kids?

when the guitar goes on. i cant hold my tears. all the memories, their coming back in this moment. so clear.

One of my favorite songs of theirs ( I say favorites as you cannot just have one favorite Elbow song)

This performance, live at Werchter, the heat , the pulse of the people... it was everything!!! one of the best moments of my life

I never get tired of listening to this, it's a beautiful piece of music

ELBOW are a class act..really appreciated their music so much!

WoW, where has this band been all my life!

I just discovered Elbow. Wow. I am totally in love. And 'Lippy Kids' is simply sublime.

i keep coming back to these tunes; something pleasing about (not only the music but) the imagery

I needed to cry, this helped me find my tears. I feel so alone.

That look he gives at 5:05, "we have something bloody special here lads". Epic!

Wow, just started crying after 2 minutes and couldn't stop till the song was over. This was an amazing journey you guys took me. Touched me right in the heart. Can't wait to meet, see and listen to you guys this year in Landgraaf. Can't wait to be touched like this again. So, so beautiful! First and only band who did this to me, like this.

I absolutely love this song....the song hits home so hard now i see my teenage boys growing up. Love it

Incredible, authentic performance of intelligent music that is on a whole other level to most modern artists'. So moving.

I cant believe 14 people cant see pure musical talent at its best. No gimmicks, no frills just feckin musical genius. I love life. Thanks Elbow.

One of my favourite songs of all time - no doubt. No doubt!

That moment when he switches from the keyboards to the piano almost at the end, is pure bliss. Is like going into Heaven

These songs are poetry....

Heavenly.. The music, the lyrics.. 'All' your songs paints a beautiful picture right infront of you.. Love.. Those golden days... Miss em..

This song is absolutely immense. I can close my eyes and instantly fall back to the 80’s when I was a nipper. “Lilly kids on the corner again” - my mam looking out the window. “Walking on walls” - me.

Always makes me feel a little melancholy when I hear this song. I’d love to go back to those years. 7/8/9 years. Having fun. Nothing to worry about; life was relatively simple. Good memories 🙂

I listened to this song on a beach while my students skipped rocks on the water. it brought me to tears then and it brings me to tears now.

the 'golden' lyric at 1.30 is when my heart literally skips a beat. it's so hauntingly beautiful - and when i saw this live, it was one of those live music moments i will never ever forget...

To put it simply, these guys have the potential to be everybody's favourite band, if only everyone would let themselves properly listen and enjoy a song for what a song is meant to be.

I was a lippy kid, hangin round the side of the spar shop in the north west, we were curd stone cool 😎

I keep listening to this a it's just perfect.

Absolutely fantastic track. This means so much to so many people in so many different reasons. Superb. Thanks guys. 👍

Always transports me back to the summer of 77 in Bury! Jubilee Year and one long June indeed. I think Station Approach ranks my number one though.

The longevity of this song is astounding. 10 times replayed without boredom.

I remember being in year 9, and I had this teacher for design technology. Never really talked to him much other than getting notes on my schoolwork. One day he starts playing this song on his laptop, and I remember hearing it before and having a pretty good memory for lyrics, I sang it lowly. He was kind of amazed that I had heard the song, asked if I was interested in listening to more, he gave me a usb stick with all their albums (at the time) on them. Been a fan ever since.

What an amazing track, I’m struggling a little bit to put it into words. It sounds so vulnerable and naked you can hear everything that’s going on, nothing is drowning out or being drown by any other sound or instrument. And then his voice just drifting over the top but again still not overpowering any other sounds. It sounds really daft but I get this mental picture of his voice “crowdsurfing” the music And the lyrics are simply stunning as are all elbow tracks, just amazing story telling.

This song reminds me that we are all just "faking it to make it", and that's not a particularly bad thing in fact it's beautiful common ground to have with the rest of the human race. Now if those twisted crazies who believe they have actually "arrived" could simply get over themselves we'd be cooking with gas! I'll now step down off my soap box, shut my mouth, and have a nice little cry because this stirring piece of music always gets me misty eyed thinking about how quickly my youth soared past me, and that I now have two teenage boys of my own who are getting to experience the thrill of discovery for themselves. Aaaaaaaahh this music breaks me heart every time!!!

Truly these musicians are of a calibre seen far and few between. The type of transportive music that requires no collaboration with video. Its like watching a sunrise.

Back on this again - it’s a masterpiece

Katherine Alexandra Hughes

even better than the album version!

The other night I was driving aimlessly around my hometown with nothing to do. It was late and I felt weirdly restless. And for some reason this song came to mind, and I knew I'd be alright if I just went home to my room and listened to it. I was right. It's that kind of beautiful.

You can see the genuine emotion and passion he embraces when he sings, giving them a 'real' sound.......

been feeling depressed because of a breakup feel better listing to this

I never heard of this band until it took a stage at the Coachella Festival in California and I remember my first thought was, "Thank God! Talent just got here..." Got to see the guys again when they played the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco. What a pleasant discovery they have been. Sure wish our young musicians in the States were exposed to more acts like this than what they're being fed.

on rare occassions a musician or group will piece together a gem,a melody to soothe our souls to awaken our senses,right now elbow are that rare occassion.this is a headfone moment each time we listen,get lost in the music and roam through the archives of childhood memories.if life was such that it could be experienced in song then this would do for me

This should last forever

I fell in love to this song

Such an evocative song. A heartfelt call to youth... possibly our own, misspent... Brilliant...

Just discovered this song - working downstairs and it was playing in the kitchen. Came upstairs to see what it was. It's beautiful - his voice and the instruments. Amazing song :)

Every time I hear this it's just a beautiful heartbreak 💔 every time I hear this I well up... I loved singing this with my arms around you... Crushed x those days are way colder... To all the times I was happy as a child and with my freshly painted angel who painted the most beautiful little cherub 💔💔 Always 🌟

i feel weird after listening this (sad and grey), but its really nice

jesus christ........ thankyou.... amazing...

Just love it 😢 first time I heard elbow was radio 2 studio, singing we have all the time in the world 😢 and that what I’m having at my funeral ❤❤❤

The voice of this guy, IT'S JUST EXCEPTIONAL! I can hear elbow music all day! Love it!

Damn I feel old. I used to be one of those lippy kids growing up. I can only hope I am now a lippy adult.

This is just perfect.

You don't realise how easy life is when you're young, until you get older. You don't know what you've got til it's gone. If only we had a time machine..........

Such an excellent song reminiscing of when he was a young teen hanging out on the corner with his Buddies no cares in the world ..how quickly we all grow up look back on those days how glorious and golden and wonderful they were . Reminiscing of When We all Were Young days you will never forget excellent song

Elbow have some beautiful songs. ****many

Absolutely build a rocket boys outstanding ❤️

I just adore him, I could happily listen to him every single day of my life

love this tune. I have to come back to it once or twice a year. Here's what I get out of it "your pissing your life away, go do something with it"