Dirty is in her lovers arms
It is London in the morning
behind them the skyline burning
the riots meaning nothing
behind in the rent
ahead in evolution
On this, the eve of the revolution
"What if we killed our clothes and learned to fall without landing."
In a cafe over coffee
He remembers Rachael
and how her wrists were like china
while in some warehouse off the river
a daughter is raped to Canon in d minor
"And all of this horror...
and just supposing, just imagine it ...and what if the world wasn't ending?"

Do do do do do do do do do do...

See there beneath the moon
the widowed moll moves, through the gangster bars
as a jaguar through an orchestra
and the orchestra is out of tune and the band is out of time
"And all of this horror... perversion
...and what if the world wasn't ending?"

Do do do do do do do do do do...

"Yeah, I was trapped by the vastness of my dreams..."
And in every friday night high street
Drink 'till you're sick, eat 'till you're full
"Cos honey, baby, sugar... it's a fallen world..."
"These are beautiful stories, for ugly children"
and I couldn't wait for each song to end so that the next would begin
" the lonely millionaire in his private karaoke bar"
and as Joe lay dying, kids across the hall were playin' somewhere
there is a party goin on....
 
 
 

She was mediterranean brown
in the half light
In the sunlight would I ever know
And you are lost in thought as I follow
the ghost of your cigarette
and jump train singing past your eyes
and I can taste you from here
Over by the window where the light is
and tonight we'll be lit by april storms
and the flickering static from the silent TV
in the corner of this room
Sepia days in bloom, wintercomessummer

Close your eyes in prayer, full brown
Sugar lips and we are in a bar
visualise our veins transparent in the
half light a cargo of alcohol and amphetamine
catching up like a diseased broken steamtrain
wintercomessummer

la, la la la, la la la, la la la la la la,....

Above ourselves looking down, a glittering tinsletown
these buses full of half lives, the lover's cars
at traffic lights, adultery, sapphic tendancies
bored lovers on a saturday, virgins on the verge
of disappearing, the oriental family in
cantonese arguing, wintercomessummer

la, la la la, la la la, la la la la la la, ...
We'll fall together through dusk until morning
Autumm was a sweet lay, but it's gorgeous
brother's dawning... wintercomessummer

la, la la la, la la la, la la la la la la, ...
 
 
 

This is slow music
This is white jazz
This is a love you will never be sure of
This is slow music
This is white jazz
and fate can rage like some wane on a riptide

Some will age
Some will die
But you and I
Well, We'll survive it all
We'll lie above it all, my love
 

This is slow music
This is white jazz
This is a love you will never be sure of
This is slow music
This is white jazz
And fate can rage forever and a day although

Some will age
Some will die
But you and I
Well, We'll survive it all
Yes, we're above it all
My love...
 

There he goes losing fights in public
Cutting his hair with razors and talk
Too drunk to kiss straight
Drunk enough to make a mistake

Biography
of a first son

He ain't got no one on his side
Just this step ? then that we can't abide
He's a glorious lush
He's throwing up and missing the night bus

Biography
of a first son

He sleeps to dream
He dreams 'till a quarter past, twenty past
...half past three

Skating on pouring
His hair is thinning
and now it's raining
well, his dad called him Luck
and his mother called him sunny
he's laughing in the backseat
'Cos he knows he's got no money

Biography
of a first son

He said " I don't need anyone...just someone
I don't need anything...just something
Just something.
 
 

"And there's this place
that I know
ANd if you've been paid
then we can go
we can catch a train
and start again
where no one knows
our filthy names"

So it's like this
The drink goes to my head
and then champagne legs
well let's get out of bed
'Cos we are healthy
and we're in love
We work out so we can get fucked up

And there's this place
that I know
And if you've been paid
then we can go
we can catch a train
and start again
where no one knows
our filthy names

Oh you gorgeous slut
well you can hardly walk
we are both pissed up whores
watch my tramp mouth talk
you should have paced yourself
'Cos now there is none left
meet me in the off-licence
at a quarter to ten

And there's this place
that I know
And if you've been paid
then we can go
we can catch a train
and start again
where no one knows
our filthy names

Do do do do do do, la la la la la la.
 
 
 

Oh Marie
You'll be the death of me
With your endless thighs
and misery
Night at the water's edge
We've got no clothes on
We've got me coming up for air
When Marie is gone

I wanted to feel
I wanted to see
So I tried to kill you...
but believe me
I didn't mean it Marie

Alone I dive for pearls
There's a bitter moon in the sky
Yet when I'm coming up for air
Morning's arrived
Set fire
On some rented bed
Saying my catholic prayers
as I'm giving you head

I wanted to feel
Hell, I wanted to see
So the doctor said I
tried to kill you, did he ?
Please believe me
I didn't mean it Marie

Oh Marie
You'll be the mother of me
With your pretty lies
and miseries...
 
 
 

It is seven
and you put on your make-up
It is eight
and he's waiting 'cos you're late
quarter past
and you wash the places
I'll never know again
quarter past
and you wish
for some stranger's hands

And I am dying
sixty seconds every minute
On my fingers
I still taste it
But, these hands are lonely
Yes, these hands are wasted
I die alone and in slo-mo
because I got what I wanted

Gone forever to a safer place than I'll
ever be, with better luck and bluer
eyes than me, to some place with
better luck and handsome hands
So "forever" is gone
and "forever" was wrong
Forever was too long...

And in the morning when I wake up
I say a little prayer
And in the evening when I wake up
I'll say a little prayer
for you...
 
 
 

Some things take forever
but this long never
Don't talk about it
It's beyond us
And nothing could end
this same thing inside us

So now I walk these streets
Somewhere it's summer
And someone's birthday
You close your eyes and lay down, my love
beneath him and forget me

And as September is dawning
who'll be beside you
to dress you
in mourning ?

And then the storm
it woke us up
and the world
it seemed so small
then we both knew
something forever
s
omething now
I don't recall...

And as September is dawning
Who'll be beside you
to dress you
to sleep with you
in mourning ?
 

Oh my darlin'
fetch my medicine
this world is crueller than you'll ever know

Pretty soon
I'll get up and get dressed
and go out
and then come back again

And no one will ever hear this song
this thing we have carried
it will never be born
we were lied to all along
Hope is a liar
and
the truth is wrong

Oh my love
I know I'll never know you again
Even if I believe in heaven
Oh, my love
Our lives are ending
So that
they
may
begin again

And no one will ever hear this song
this thing we have carried
it will never be born
we were lied to all along
Hope is a liar
and
the truth is wrong.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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