The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar). The band, centred on the songwriting partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall (bass) and Gary Powell (drums) for most of its recording career. The band was part of the garage rock revival and spearheaded the movement in the UK.
The band gained some notoriety in the early 2000s. Although their mainstream success was initially limited, their profile soon grew, culminating in a #2 single and #1 album on the UK Charts. In December 2004, their self-titled second album was voted the second best album of the year by NME magazine. Both of their full-length LPs were produced by Mick Jones, of the British punk band The Clash.
In spite of their critical success as well as decent commercial success, the band's music was often eclipsed by its internal conflicts, stemming from Doherty's addictions to crack cocaine and heroin, which eventually led to the breakup of the band. Doherty has since stated that the breakup of the band was due to relationship difficulties between Barât and himself that were not related to his drug addictions. The members of The Libertines went on to form new bands with varying degrees of commercial and critical success.
What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her
There's tears coming out from everywhere
The city's hard, the city's fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt
When she wakes up in the morning
She writes down all her dreams
Reads like the book of revelations
Or the Beano or the unabridged ulysses
Oh I really wanna know
So tell me, where does all the money go
where does all the money go
Straight, straight up her nose
And I never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah
What a divvy what a fucking div
Talking like a moron, walking like a spiv
I was laying in bed paying my rent
Knocking on the door for something
That she lent her brother
Meanwhile from under the covers she says
Save me from tommorow, save me from tommorow
Oh no, Oh no not me
And I never never liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah
Never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah
What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her
There's tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt
What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her
There's tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
No you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt
Kareema know just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her to get a buzz
Down in the street below
You can hear the drunken prophet sing
"I know whats on your mind my boy
I can see oh everything
Lead pipes are fortune made well
Take a tip from me
Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be
Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please"
Who really knows just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her
To get a buzz
The rapture of vertigo
And letting go
Me myself i was never sure
Was it the liquor
Or was it my soul?
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Oh watcha gonna do, Katie?
You're a sweet sweet girl.
But it's a cruel, cruel world
a cruel, cruel world.
My pins are none too strong, Katie
Oh hurry up Mrs Brown
I can feel 'em coming down
& it won't take none too long
But since you said goodbye
The polka dots fill my eye
And I don't know why
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Shoop, shoop, shoop de-lang de-lang
Oh watcha gonna do, Katie?
You're a sweet sweet girl.
But it's a cruel, cruel world
a cruel, cruel world.
My pins are none too strong
They hold my life together
And I never say never say never
I never say never say never again
Oh but since you said goodbye
The polka dots fill my eye
And I don't know why
Since you said goodbye
The polka dots fill my eyes
And I don't know why
Say you want
Say you will
Say you won't but don't leave me standing
Say you will, it's up to anyone
That's what they all like to know
...
And since you said goodbye
The polka dots fill my eye
And I don't know why
Please don't get me wrong
See I forgive you in a song
We'll call the likely lads
But if its left to you,
I know exactly what you'd do
With all the dreams we had
Just blood run's thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If that's important to you
Its important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't wanna know
You dont wanna know!
If you pipe all summer long
Then get forgiven in a song
Well that's the touch, my lad
They sold the rights to all the wrongs
And when they knew you'd give me songs
Welcome back, I said
The blood runs thicker,oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If thats important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't want to know
You don't want to know
Oh what became of the Likely Lads?
What became of the dreams we had?
Oh what became of forever?
Oh what became of forever?
Though, we'll never know
Please don't get me wrng
See I forgive you in a song
We call the Likely Lads
We all bought the ones
We taught 'em all we wrote the songs
That's filled with dreams we have
But blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If that's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't want to know
You don't want to know!
Oh what became of the Likely Lads?
What became of the dreams we had?
Oh what became of forever?
Oh what became of forever?
We'll never know
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
We were shovelled up like muck
Set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love
But there's a rumour spread nasty diseases around town
Caught round the houses with your trousers down
A headrush in the bush
You know I cherish you my love
How i cherish you my love
What can you want now you've got it all
The whole scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones he knows what I mean
Yes it's eating no it's chewing me up
It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
Oh it's all
It's all in my hands
And its all up the walls
Well the stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down
Its these ignorant faces that bring this town down
Yeah I sighed and sunken with pride
I passed myself down on my knees
Yes I passed myself down on my knees
What can you want now you've got it all
The whole scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I really mean
There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
Were in a class of our own my love
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
We were shovelled up like muck
Then set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love
Oh how I cherish you my love.
A problem
Here comes a problem
You let down your friends
And you let down the people
And you let down yourself Oh oh oh oh
And only fools, vultures and undertakers
Will have any time for you
A Problem, here comes a problem
When you lie to your friends
And you lie to your people
And you lie to yourself
And the truth's too harsh to comprehend
You just pretend there isn't a problem
I am a pimp and they say
And in my bed you dig my bed
I dig my grave
The truth's too hard to comprehend
You just pretend there isn't a problem
No, no I ain't got a problem
It's you with the problem
I saw two shadow men on the Vallance Road
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh I was so bold
I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
Yous a way to mean no
Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
Said "sunshine I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes"
They chased me up two flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
Hello, 'cause you're impossible
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
Wind up like Joseph bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It's impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally road
Said now they'd double their offer
I was so bold
To say you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
Oh yous a way to mean no
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
He'll end up like Joseph bloody in a hole
It's just like she's in another world
How they suit each other oh no
But you never get close
It's unstoppable
But it's just like we're all in another world
How we suit each other oh no
But we never get close
Thats close enough now...
In the land of the gauching skiving sun
There's bodies in the room, lad
Never an honest day's work is done
They call it the Tomblands
No, they're never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Fifteen holes in the dealer's chest
Yo ho ho he was a mini martial man
Social unrest
Pieces of eight in the jukebox
Oh, you know
Didn't wanna be the one to tell you
She was only 14
Sussed out your dirty sorded little scene
No, they're never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone
Still then the spirit
In her children's children's children
It lives on
If you've lost your faith in love and music
Oh the end won't be long
Because if it's gone for you then I too may lose it
And that would be wrong
You know I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling
Back into my bad old ways
And it chars my heart to always hear you calling
Calling for the good old days
Because there were no good old days
These are the good old days
It's not about, tenements and needles
And all the evils in their eyes
And the backs of their minds
Daisy chains and school yard games
And a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
The arcadian dream has all fallen through
But the Albion sails on course
So lets man the decks and hoist the rigging
Because the pig mans found the source
And theres twelve rude boys on the oars
The boy looked at Johnny and said
My word that was fun
When he did it with his hat on
Like in a saddle with his gun
We're in slow motion eating breakfast
At the side view hotel
Oh sipping down wine
Everything's going so well
New York city's very pretty in the night time
But oh don't you miss Soho
Where everybody goes
La de di la de di da diddy
The boy looked at Johnny
Said "Don't you know who I think I am"
He said I did it once before
Now Im trying all I can
He says oh no no
oh yeah yeah
I said oh no no no
yeah yeah yeah yeah
New York city's very pretty in the night time
But don't you miss Soho
Where everybody goes
La de di la de di da diddy
Another secret for ya
I've been told if you want to make it in this game
You got to have the luck
You got to have the look
To make what I quite like to make it through the night
My heart beats slow fast, I dont feel right
With a sleight of hand I might die
What about you over there?
Don't you think I care?
Well I know you know I know you know I know
And to the man who would be king
I would say only one thing
And to the man who would be king
I will say only one thing
la la la-la-la-laa la la la-la-la-laa
I lived my dreams today
And I have lived it yesterday
And I'll have lived it tomorrow
No don't look at me that way
Well I heed the words you say...
But my heart has gone astray
I watched friendship slip away
But it wasn't s'posed to be that way
I lived my dreams today I lived it yesterday
And I'll be living yours tomorrow
Anything else to say?
I lived my dream today I lived it yesterday
And I'll be living yours tomorrow
So don't look at me that way!
What's about you man, Nancy my dear
What's about you man, Nancy my dear
What's about you man, Nancy my dear
What will you do when she comes here?
Oh she'll kill me
Oh, I don't wanna kill me
And to the man who would be king
I would say only one thing
And to the man who would be king
I would say only one thing
la la la-la-la-laa la la la-la-la-laa
Perish the day when they heed what you say
They'll take you away if they don't like what you say
They don't like what you say
So come what may but I'll never stay
I'll never stay
If you get tired of hanging around
pick up a guitar and spin a web of sound
Then you could be strung out all day
with your lovers and clowns
(but now I find myself still hanging around..)
It's been a long war and now I'm tired and dirty
Still not dirty enough for you my love
We've been thieving, we stole the light from the dawn
But when I come round on your floor I wish I'd never been born
Can you see me? Can you see through it all?
I'm empty lost and alone oh won't you heed my call?
It's been a long war, now we're tired and dirty
Still not dirty enough for you my love....
There's a campaign of hate
It's waiting at the school gates
Not for what I am aware
It must be what she wrote, what she writes
You swore and you swear
Do you remember why you came?
Not to play follow the leader
No no
Poor kids dressing like they're rich
(mods)
Rich kids dressing like they're poor
(Oh my God)
White kids talking like they're black
Well I tried it with Charlene
And I spent 3 days on my back
Ah she said maybe I like the cut of your J.I.B.
I don't believe them when they say
That you don't get nothing for free
(It's all for free)
There's a campaign of hate
It's waiting at the school gates
There's a campaign of hate
You're walking like you never seen the light
You're walking like it every night
But I've never seen you dance,
and I've never heard you sing
So how can it mean a single thing
It's all so rudimentary
You're talking like your handy in a fight
You talk about it every night
But I've never seen your flowers,
in the barrel of a gun
All I've ever seen you do is run
It's all so rudimentary
So tell me baby how does it feel
I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel
And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
They twist and they shout for
(twist and scream and shout)
For the boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
You're walking like you never seen the light
You're walking like it every night
But then I stop to think,
I ask my self why
One of those things that darling you must try
It's all so rudimentary
Now I'm jealous, I'm jealous of my own
I've no homestead but through these hearts I will roam, yea
And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
For The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
Yes they all roll them out for
(twist and scream and shout)
For The boys in the band
Only for the boys in the band
Well tell me baby how does it feel
I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel
And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
They scream and they shout for
(twist and scream and shout)
For the boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
I've got a little secret for ya
Even now there's something
To be proud about
You come up the hard way
And they'll remind you every day
You're nothing
Oh my words in your mouth
Are mumbled all about
You're like a journalist
How you can cut and paste and twist
You're awful
Tell it to your king
Tell him everything you know
Tell him you know how I feel
Tell him you know how I feel at the palace gates
Oh I'm all levered off my face
And just to work out what it's on about
And see snakes in eyes
And danger signs
If you were late you mustn't dare complain
And you won't like this at all
There's nothing to break your fall
Oh tell it to your king
Tell him everything you know
And you know how I feel out of place
Until I'm levered off my face
And I can't work out what your on about
Didn't they explain
You have to play the game, oh-oh
He drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand
Roll a
Gasper
The guard said he could stay alive but he shovelled and burned his friends to die
People to die
Oh the gate read
Arbeit macht frei
In her rollers
And a gasper
She cleaned the steps of a mean street where no policeman walked the beat
Her old man
He don't like blacks or queers
Yet he's proud we beat the Nazis...
How queer
Arbeit Macht Frei
All animals we are
Round the bench in the park
Your sisters in the dark today
Watery pinned eyes
My soul has gone a little cold
Well, maybe maybe next year
If it isn't to dear
We'll get ourself some good time girls
Remember when you pay
You'll pay in many many ways
Now he's crossing the road
to get his his daily sport
Oh now they're begging you
They're begging you
What will you do?
Oh lord they're begging you
Your friend begging you
What will you do?
Have you heard the singer said
He's a dead ringer for
A feeling that I used to know
Hell she cries oh hell
No no it's a funny way to go
Now he's crossing the road
Picking up his daily sport
Oh now they're begging you
They're begging you
What will you do?
Oh lord they're begging you
Your friends begging you
What will you do?
How can we make you understand
All you can be is right given in your hand
You won't need money
Trust in me, take me by the hand
Give us a chip
Dreams are strewn across the sand
You won't need money
And all the pimps, punks, pederasts, jugglers and fools
They drive me crazy, are climbing the walls
show me the way, the way to the store
Cause I'm so sick of it all
But when the penny drops
Trust in me, take me by the hand
Cashing your chips strewn across the sand
You won't need money
And all the pimps, punks, pederasts, jugglers and fools
They drive me crazy, it's no good at all
show me the way, the way to the store
Cause I'm so sick of it all
But when the penny drops...
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for one thousand days
Hey
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
Don't let the tide of your soul
Drown your nights and flood your days
But still its better to be shy than screaming drunken old queen
who's always got to have his way
But don't be coy with me
I am to clever to follow you down
To the dark and stormy weather, babe
The bracket's wider now
So whats your pleasure?
Swallow your pride
But please...
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for one thousand days
Now is your time to shine
Dance and hear your song
or you may wake up one day in the last chance saloon
to find your last chance has been and gone
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for one thousand days
hey hey hey.
Professionally trendy in the glow of Claphams sun
There's life after work and it can be such fun
You see all your models in magazines and on the walls
You wanna be just like them
Cause they're so cool
They're just narcissists
Well wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray?
Just for a day
They're just narcissists
Oh, what's so great to be Dorian Gray
Everyday?
We're living in a looking glass
As the beauty of life goes by
You're going to be so oh
You're going to grow so old
Your skin so cold
Well they're just narcissists
Well wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray?
Just for a day
They're just narcissists
Oh, what's so great to be Dorian Gray
Everyday?
They're just narcissists
Well wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray?
Just for a day
Just for a day
If I get the call
I will call across Radio America
Right across America I will call
Yes I will call all across Radio America
Right across America I will call
If call I must do
To take my love my love to you
There a lovely young girl on?
And all across Africa, China and Australia
I will call
Call you down in New Mexico
In New Brighton and Tokyo
I will call
If call I must do
To take my love my love to you
For well it may hap' that these are they
Your happiest days
Oh my good old friend
I see you chanced your arm again
Red faced president
Took afternoon tea with her majesty the Queen
And they watched old films flicker
Across the old palace movie screen crying
What a shame as she slipped in the rain
The poor dancing girl she won't dance again
And they said it was a transmission
To take my love my love to you
Mayday Lyrics
A slave's a girl who slaves her days away,
In arabesques & minarettes,
Tablecloths and serviettes.
She's screaming 'this is what you get'
First you put the tongue in,
Then you put the boot in,
Yeah yeah, oh yeah
First you put the tongue in,
Then you put the boot in,
Yeah yeah, oh yeah
The mob goes fifteen ways,
I don't know which way to go.
The mob goes fifteen ways,
and my head, my poor head
feels like a smashed window
George is 24, easily bored
all his life seen nothing but closed doors
Not any more...
First you put the tongue in,
Then you put the boot in,
Yeah yeah, oh yeah
First you put the tongue in,
Then you put the boot in,
Yeah yeah, oh yeah
is it cruel to be kind not to speak my mind and to lie to you rather than hurt you
well ill confess all of my sins after several large gins but still ill hide from you, hide whats
inside from you
and alarm bells ring.when you say your heart still sings.when your with me, oh darling please
forgive me
but i no longer hear the music oh no no no no
and all the memories of the pubs and the clubs, and the drugs and the tubs we shared together
will stay with me forever..
but all the highs and the lows and the to's and the fro's they left me dizzy oh wont you please
forgive me
but i no longer hear the music oh no no no no
well i no longer hear the music when the lights go out love goes cold in the shades of doubt the
strange fate in my mind its all too clear, music when the lights come on the girl i thought i
knew has gone, and with her my heart it dissapeard
well i no longer hear the music oh no no no no and all the memories of the fights and the nights
and the blue lights and the kites we flew together i thought theyd fly forever
but all the highs and the lows and the to's and the fro's they left me dizzy oh wont you please
forgive me
but i no longer hear the music oh no no no no
well i no longer hear the music when the lights go out love goes cold in the shades of doubt the
strange fate in my mind its all too clear
i no longer hear the music when the lights go out the girl i thought i knew has gone and with
her my heart has disapeard
but i no longer hear the music oh no no no no and i no longer hear the music
You caught me in the middle dazed on the carpet
I was following the lines,
that move like more snakes thinking...
Something ain't quite right
You got the devil on your side,
standing to your right come on
You caught me in the middle dazed and confused
I was following the good steps,
fancy free and footlose.
And something ain't quite right
But if you get them on your side,
then we'll have a good time,
come on now come on!
I get along, I get along, I get along, I get along...
Get along
It's coming out my ears,
so baby here's what we'll do
There's ten for you and six for him,
and four for them and let me see
Now something ain't quite right
You can get them on your side,
then we'll have a good time, come on!
I get along, I get along, I get along, I get along...
Get along
I get along singing my song,
People tell me I'm wrong..
Fuck 'em!
It's coming out my ears,
so baby here's what we'll do
There's ten for you and six for him,
and four for them.
Now something ain't quite right
You got the devil on your side,
Standing to your right, come on!
I get along, I get along, I get along, I get along...
And when I do, I'm singing... get along!
If I have to go
I will be thinking of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
You will know
Thinkin of your love
Slyly they whispered away
As I played the last post on the bugle
I heard them say
Oh that boy's no different today
Except in every single way
If I have to go
I will be thinking of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
just know you'll
thinking of your love
Oh, I was carried away
Caught up in an affray
as they led him away, he sang
we'll meet again some day
oh my boy, theres a price to pay
If I have to go
I will be thinking of your love
Oh somehow you'll know
I don't know how but you'll know
I'll be thinking of your love
la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la
Inside I felt
so, alone
locked in a room
waiting till kingdom come
although I felt elated
I felt like I was scum
I was carried away
caught up in affray
as they led him away, he sang
we'll meet again some day
oh my boy, theres a price to pay
Feels like I've never been away
Though it's been longer than I can possibly say
I've been wandering the market
carrying a sign, saying the end of...
The world is nigh
I'm glad to see we're still tight
The bonds that tie a man are tight
yet we do what we do
with rituality
all through the night
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for one thousand days
Hey
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
Don't let the tide of your soul
Drown your nights and flood your days
But still its better to be shy than screaming drunken old queen
who's always got to have his way
But don't be coy with me
I am to clever to follow you down
To the dark and stormy weather, babe
The bracket's wider now
So whats your pleasure?
Swallow your pride
But please...
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for one thousand days
Now is your time to shine
Dance and hear your song
or you may wake up one day in the last chance saloon
to find your last chance has been and gone
Don't be shy
Don't be shy
For if you are shy for tomorrow
You'll be shy for one thousand days
hey hey hey.
I've been following
Your minds instructions
Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death
Ah yes, there is a screw
It's pointed at my head
Then look a dream peddlar
And a stick of light through my bones
"Don't get on the wrong one"
"Oi you and you what's your game"
Laying me down to waste laying me down
Pin me up or put me down
Uh uh uh uh oh
Now let it all go
It's a horror show, you should come on round
Horror show, the horse is brown
Uh uh oh left something in Moscow
She said "I'll show you a picture
A picture of tomorrow
There's nothing changing
It's all sorrow
Oh no please dont show me
I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me
An ending fitting for the start
you twist and tore our love apart
your light fingers through the dark
that shattered the lamp and into the darkness cast us...
No you've got it the wrong way round
you shut me up and blamed it on the brown
cornered the boy kicked out at the world...the world kicked back
alot fuckin' harder now
If you wanna try, If you wanna try
there's no worse you could do (oh oh oh)
I know you lie (I know you lie)
I'm still in love with you (oh oh oh)
Can't take me anywhere (Cant take you anywhere)
Can't take me anywhere (wouldn't take you anyway)
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
by YOU CAN'T STAND ME NOW YOU CAN'T STAND ME NOW CAN'T STAND ME NOW
CAN'T STAND ME NOW
Have we enough to keep it together?
or do we just keep on pretending (and hope our luck is never ending..)
You tried to pull the wool I wasn't feeling too clever,
you tool all that they're lending
until you needed mending...
If you wanna try...etc
YOU CAN'T STAND ME NOW
From way far across the sea
Came an eritrean maiden she
Had a one track mind and eyes for me
Half blinded in the war
With a pale young Anglican
Who said he'd help her all he can
Showed her Jesus and his little un-holy friend
She had no mind to please him
Just say 'ta-ra' and leave him behind
There's a little boy in a stairwell who says
"I hate people like you"
Got matches & cable TV half of less than 50p
We all clambered over the balcony
Banging on the window waking Steve
Bringing with a true love his un-holy friend
If you really need it
You just won't leave it behind
So baby please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
But don't bring that ghost round to my door
I don't wanna see him anymore
Please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
Just don't bang on about yesterday
I wouldn't know about that anyway
Monkey asked the mouse before
If she loved anybody more than he
It turns you into stone
Now I'm reversing down the lonely street
To a cheap hotel when I can meet the past
And pay it off and keep it sweet
It's sweet like nothing no
It's just like nothing at all
Yes I've seen you there
How could I help but stare
It rips the heart out off your baby
Now I've taken far too much to see
Or think or touch what's real
I'm stranded on this street that
Paved my only way home
You really need it oh
You just won't leave it behind
So baby please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
But don't bring that ghost round to my door
I don't wanna see him anymore
Please kill me
Oh baby don't kill me
But don't bang on about yesterday
I wouldn't know about that anyway
Oh no
He got nothing he got nothing at all
The ideal girl,
In London from France
Came Over and left me,
She left me entranced.
Now I have to get by,
Once again on my own,
Nothing but... memories.
See i remember your eyes,
In their dark shade of brown,
While these blue eyes of mine,
They stay closed.
I kissed you goodby on the M-109
I choked as I watched the bus go, oh-oh
[Instrumental chorus]
Choking and smoking to your angelic soul,
Choking and smoking myself into a hole,
where the only way out is to sleep and to dream,
and to cry... out your na-a-ame
I've been following
Your minds instructions
Oh how just to slowly, sharply screw myself to death
Ah yes, there is a screw
It's pointed at my head
Then look a dream peddlar
And a stick of light through my bones
"Don't get on the wrong one"
"Oh you and you what's your game"
Laying me down to waste laying me down
Pin me up or put me down
Uh uh uh uh oh
Now let it all go
It's a horror show, you should come on round
Horror show, the horse is brown
Uh uh oh left something in Moscow
She said "I'll show you a picture
A picture of tomorrow
There's nothing changing
It's all sorrow
Oh no please dont show me
I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me