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The arrangement is almost entirely acoustic with only very light percussion, and the one electric guitar part is played backwards over a verse. The lyric lists scenes of working-class British life, from a police car and a screaming siren to a pneumatic drill and ripped-up concrete, and ends on an ironic refrain. Weller said he wrote it in ten minutes flat after a few drinks, and that writing it was easy because the images were all around him in London.

It was never released as a domestic UK single during the band's lifetime, yet it charted as an import, backed by a live Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, and reached 21. It had its first full UK release in 1983, reaching 60, and a 1991 reissue made the top 50. It and Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero? are the two biggest selling import singles in UK history. Rolling Stone ranked it number 306 on its 2004 list of the 500 greatest songs, the band's only entry. When the Jam played Newcastle City Hall on 28 October 1980, a month before the album, they left it out of the set.