Lippy Kids

Lippy Kids was the working title of Build a Rocket Boys!, and Q called it a key song. Garvey said he wrote it in defence of British teenagers against the anti-hoody coverage in the media, and the thought that hanging around on a street corner makes you a criminal. The lyrics are Garvey's and the music is credited to the band.

Critics disagreed on it. The Guardian's Alexis Petridis called it the album's emotional centre, a meditation on adolescence, while NME's John Doran found it close to a Hovis advert. Pitchfork's Ian Cohen heard the Talk Talk spirituals of the early records in it and praised its lyrical warmth. It runs 6:06 and is the second track on the album.