Lips Of London lyrics - Del Amitri
I thought I heard my name
On the lips of London
It might have been the rain
It might've been a dream
There's a cherry stain
On the lips of London
And a nagging pain
Everywhere I've been
There's a ring of cranes
On the lips of London
Tearing at the edges
Pulling up the dead
But I can't forget those lips of London
Say the saddest thing
They ever said
I spent a lot of time
On the lips of London
Living in a bind
And dying to be free
More than a little wine
Passed my lips in London
So when I drink I find
It all comes back to me
There's a ring of cranes
On the lips of London
Tearing at the edges
Pulling up the dead
But I can't forget those lips of London
Say the saddest thing
They ever said
You break a heart in two
You break a spell
And each one is left
With the other's half as well
Thought I heard my name
On the lips of London
But it was just the rain
It was just the wind
And the sweetest thing
About the lips of London
Was how they smiled
To the bitter end
There's a ring of cranes
On the lips of London
Tearing at the edges
Pulling up the dead
But I can't forget those lips of London
Say the saddest thing
They ever said
Gone In A Second lyrics - Del Amitri
Find something to do
Something worth playing
I'm just passing through
Don't think I'll be staying
Cos I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second
Like teardrops dry
I'll be gone in a second
Right out of the blue
Just as you're waking
I'll be there to give you
A little shoulder shaking
But I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second
Like a fleck in your eye
It'll be gone in a second
A second of love, a second of life
A second remembering it right
Watching a soul slip out of sight
Into the ether of the night
In a second...
Find something to do
Before I wander
Into your mind
Like a roll of thunder
Cos I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second
Like a flash of light
It'll be gone in a second
I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second
I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second
I'll be there for you
Cos I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second
I promise you I
I'll be gone in a second...
Shame lyrics - Del Amitri
I'm writing a poem, it's not about you
But this guy you might know him
He's a clown too
Shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame, shame
Well, he's got your name
Dresses the same way
And he acts like the star
Of his own play
He's a typical guy
When he has whiskey in his veins
Just like you and I he lives in shame
Shame, shame, shame
Well, he started a fight with a building
He's always looking for nights
To get killed in
And he waltzes through life
With typical disdain
Just like you and I he lives in shame
Shame, shame, shame
Shame at the states we get in
Shame at the places we've been
Shame at the wells, shame at the bells
Shit what the hell, for everything else
We'll take the blame
Without shame
Shame, shame, shame
So I'm forging ahead with or without you
Meet me at the edge of the cliff
You know you want to
Typical guys, want to go out like a flame
So much better to die
Than live in shame
Shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame, shame
Your Love (Is Killing Me) lyrics - Del Amitri
Your love is killing me
I wake up soaking in bed
In a monsoon of dread
Your love is killing me
I go limping around
From bar to bar in this town
Your love slowly steals
And I can't believe just how good that feels
I get sick and I get well
And I can't wait to go back to hell
Your love is killing me
There's a pain in my side
It feels like shame every night
Your love is killing me
By stealth, by design
By only inches at a time
Your love slowly steals
And I can't believe just how good that feels
I get sick and I get well
And I can't wait to go back to hell
Your love puts the fear in me
How could I ever be without
Your love never heals
And I can't believe just how good that feels
I get sick and I get well
And I can't wait to go back to hell
And I can't wait to go back to hell
Your love is killing me
Your love is killing me
Your love killing me
This City Loves You Back lyrics - Del Amitri
Saw a hipster girl walking her cat
I saw a pig-masked man fall out of a flat
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
I saw a sawn-off police officer huffing up a rail
I saw a jet-liner reverse and hoover up its vapour trail
I saw a school on fire, saw a stag-night choir
Watching a seagull and a rat fight to the death over a flyer
I saw surgeons laughing at a heart attack
Behind a poster claiming this city loves you back
This city loves you back
I saw the cavalry charging at a peacenik brigade
Down the street where all the bands play and vapers parade
I saw a bride get busted, I saw a swan get flayed
I saw a kid fly off the quay where all the battleships were made
I saw a crazy bitch flash her tits on the bonnet of a Rolls
I saw a hacksaw cut clean through the queen of souls
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
So I met you in a nightclub full of casual amputees
Who have their heads removed like chickens on weekend sprees
I never found a home here, I played too safe to crack
I was a wolf in the basement pining for the pack
But you dogged me like a shadow now the city loves me back
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
This city loves you back
Some Mothers Do Have Them lyrics - Del Amitri
Some mothers do have them
Those no mum would choose
But you and I we know now
They're all sons ever lose
A little time to sleep before they die
A little time to never say goodbye
Some mothers do have them
The quiet ones the geeks
And you and I we know now
Must've come across like freaks
A lot of time alone to play guitar
A lot of nights grasping through the dark
What we were looking for was hiding in the liner sleeves
Maybe we took it all too hard or too seriously
Some mothers do have them
Now we just have you and me
You and me
Some mothers do have them
So whatcha gonna do?
They're gonna go their own way
It ain't up to you
So little time to tell them not to fear
But every mother has to disappear
Happiness Is It lyrics - Del Amitri
I'm gonna sing a happy song (everything is dying)
So kick your feet and clap along (we're all going to hell)
I'm gonna sing a happy song
Throw it on the heap of shit you're choking on
To the ever growing hill of junk
I'm gonna add another one
I'm gonna let rip a whoop of joy (everything is burning)
C'mon kill a girl, rape a boy (we're all going to hell)
I'm gonna sing a happy song
Don't give a fuck if you don't sing along
Next year this will all be gone
So hit the pedal bring it on
Hurry up don't be late the suicides start at eight
Last one alive can take some pride
In seeing the last one die
I'm gonna sing a happy song (everything is dying)
Happiness keeps us strong (we're all going to hell)
I'm gonna sing a happy song
'Til my eyes bleed and hair is gone
Main thing is to carry on into the pit
'Cause happiness is it
O My Lazy Baby lyrics - Del Amitri
O my lazy baby I still love you
In spite of all the loving you don't do
And I'm your lazy baby I admit it too
I guess I could make you happy
But don't bother to
O my lazy baby you're a train wreck
A kiss of life could save you on your craned neck
But I'm your lazy baby and I do nothing
But wait for someone stronger
To blow that breath in
I haunt the broken bed
With the force of the long dead
O my lazy baby I can't lift my head
O my lazy baby I still love you
But I don't lift a finger although I want to
'Cause I'm your lazy baby with so much work to do
I guess I could make you happy
But I'm as lazy as you
And if I don't make you happy
Someone else is going to
Do I want to make you happy?
I do, I do, I do
My Adulthood lyrics - Del Amitri
I've been living like a child all my adulthood
Waiting for a man to take my place
There's a river of denial runs through my adulthood
I don't know who owns this face
I've wasted every day of my adulthood
I've spilled it on the ground like rain
I don't know when this became my adulthood
Since I refused to change a thing
My adulthood is just a name I took
From the other adults that I saw
And little did I know, nobody ever grows
They just pretend that it's all like before
I'm way past the salad days of my adulthood
Not even mirrored shades can hide that truth
I thought I'd run away from my adulthood
Since I escaped the cage of my youth
My adulthood is a masquerade I took
From the other adults that I knew
And little did I know, nobody ever grows
They just carry on as children do
Like I've carried all my adulthood
This thing I had to do
Suspend my adulthood, so every day I could
Be free from you
At The End Of The Lightning lyrics - Del Amitri
The western approaches go by in a flash
And the joke I call home is just a party I crash
So I lie on the pillow so desperate to go
Back to the playground of the show
I look from the window, watch the world standing still
Feel the floorboards sliding with just the force of will
I taste the dirt of the cities that I thundered through
See the battalions of taxis that I fell into
At the end of the lightning is the life that I know
I hit the ground like a hailstone and melt into the flow
As you lay dying
I was coasting on a shaky stage
Living large at the end of the lightning
Tearing out another page
My five o'clock shadow has turned to midnight snow
I share laughs with your widow, but the punchline I don't wanna know
I pine for the motion and long for the van to go
Be at the other end of the lightning with the ground so far below
You Can't Go Back lyrics - Del Amitri
You can't go back
Honey, that is what they told us
You know what I think of that
Cos I'm back here at your side
Were you lonely?
Were you eaten up inside
Thinking if only we'd tried...
You can't go back
But back then nobody could hold me
So I've come back round
And I'm holding you to this
That thing between us
That we knew was something special
Well, it seems it still is...
They can't destroy us
We put the seal on it
So be joyous
Cos once the fuse is lit
You can't go back
You can't go back
That thing between us
That we knew was something special
Well, it seems it still is...
You can't go back
That is what they told us
I know what you think of that
You've made it pretty clear
So, baby
Promise me forever
You will stay right here...
And you can't go back
You can't go back
You can't go back
You can't go back
That is what they told us...
(You can't go back...)
All Hail Blind Love lyrics - Del Amitri
Is this a revival
Or just the last breath
At the end of the regime?
People toast our survival
As if slogging on
Is living out the dream
So hold up your faces
Left to your devices
You'd have killed us off
We would have never kept going
If the going wasn't so damned rough
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
Don't assume we've mellowed
We still think of one another
As a fraud
Such strange bedfellows
It's the hatred and resentment
You applaud
So fill up your glasses
Here's to another thirty years full of
Wounding each other
Like we just can't get enough
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail the trail of failures
Slights and snide remarks
Flung with a sneer
So add your wishes here
We can only hope you're both
Still blind next year
So hold up your faces
Left to your devices
You'd have killed us off
We would have never kept going
If the going wasn't so damned rough
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail blind love
All hail, all hail blind love
Musicians And Beer lyrics - Del Amitri
God doesn't love you
God doesn't care
You lie on the slab with
Blood in your hair
And the voices of angels
Are flat and austere
Well, that's what you get if you don't book
Musicians and beer
You stand on the vanquished
Your feet on their chests
Posing like starlets
In bulletproof vests
Your wife doesn't love you
She's sick of the fear
Sick of living without
Musicians and beer
So lock up your daughters
Shit, you already did
At least Muddy Waters
Can't fuck with your kids
I'm an avid blasphemer
With a passion for queer
Cos I can't live without
Musicians and beer
My granddaddy's bible
So brooding and black
Lies like a tombstone
On my own daddy's back
And we lowered him down
Without a tear
So he died like a pauper
Without musicians and beer
So this is an order
Get yourself some
Musicians and beer
Close Your Eyes And Think Of England lyrics - Del Amitri
Day by day we're winnowing away
At the kind of world the heathens have their eyes on
Step by step the sun is gonna set
On the waves that sully the horizon
So close your eyes and think of England
That boat afloat on the ocean sets my spine a-tingling
So let the boys brigade be singing
Close your eyes, close your eyes
Blow by blow, there's gonna be a show
We're gonna teach the goons the who is who of history
Deal by deal we'll crush them on a wheel
Of progress and manifest destiny
So close your eyes and think of England
That boat afloat on the ocean with the chains of state a-jingling
And at the sight of intermingling
Close your eyes, close your eyes
Close the door behind you, I feel kinda blue
I guess I miss the time
The scapegoat was always someone new
So step up to the camera, you
And close your eyes and think of England
That boat afloat all alone on the ocean is sinking
And a telephone is ringing, the coastguard have been drinking
Nobody had an inkling 'cause they closed their eyes
Close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes
Losing The Will To Die lyrics - Del Amitri
I wish I could feel like people feel
I wish I didn't have a heart
That sits like a stone in its jail of bones
Ready to be ripped apart
But yesterday I felt a funny thing
Maybe you know why
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
I thought I was done, I was way beyond
The solace of the sight of land
No flash of distress in the blackness
Everything beautifully planned
But suddenly I see searchlights
Maybe you know why
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
I've got pills and poisons
Hosepipes, knives
And ropes in rich supply
But the notes I wrote are mouldy
And the inkwell's going dry
Cos I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
Hooray! Hooray! It's Saturday
Time to tie the noose
All praise to you and your savagery
The rope has another use
So happy that I've got an aim in life
Maybe you know why
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
I'm losing the will
I'm losing the will to die
Otherwise lyrics - Del Amitri
Otherwise
We'd be dancing on a beach
In the starlight
With a margarita each
Otherwise
We'd be riding on a bus
Into nowhere
Babe, I wish it was
Otherwise
Not barely getting through
Another night
With the curtains drawn
To keep us from
Seeing other people's lives
Otherwise
We'd be rolling in the aisles
And kids
Would be rolling their eyes
Otherwise
We're holding on
To the lifeboat's sides
And the only thing
Keeping us afloat
Is to dream what might have been
Otherwise...
Otherwise
I'd be leaving you alone
Not watching you try
To push the blood back in a stone
Otherwise
We'd walk along the sea
Not realise
That life is going to be
Otherwise
Babe, I wish it was
Otherwise
Babe, I wish it was
Otherwise
It's Feelings lyrics - Del Amitri
All the raindrops in the air
Come make a river through my hair
Come down and drown me
I don't care
'Cause it's feelings
That cut you
It's feelings
I can't bear
But it's feelings
That put you there
All the sickness, all the bruises
All the shit that no one chooses
Bring it on in its disguises
I'll take the knockouts with the prizes
'Cause it's feelings
That cut you
And it's feelings
I can't bear
But it's feelings
That put you there
(Put you there)
Trying to make some sense of why you can't see straight
(Put you there)
While the world goes past like a pantomime behind the glass
(Put you there)
Holding a dead man's hand as his watch ticks like the rain
It's just feelings
That cut you
It's just feelings
That put you there
It's just feelings
I'm So Scared Of Dying lyrics - Del Amitri
I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
Every day I try just to stay alive
So you won't be sitting by
That empty chair at night
I'm smoking like a factory
Come on, keep ahead of me
Don't wanna think of you
Happy and alone
Cos I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
I put a little poison in your cup one time
So lock me up, baby if mercy is a crime
I check your breathing as you sleep
Hoping it slows and stops for keeps
Don't wanna think you might
Have to be alone
Cos I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
Don't wanna think of you
Running through the worst of me
Or you to figure out
You should've long ago got free
It is better for us both if I survive
So you never know how it feels
To truly be alive
Cos I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
I'm so scared of dying
And leaving you behind
I'm so scared of
I'm so scared of dying
I'm so scared of
Every day I just try to stay alive
Cos I'm so scared of dying
Mockingbird, Copy Me Now lyrics - Del Amitri
I shout it at the moon
But my love gets hit by her lampoon
I'm just waiting for
My mockingbird to copy me now
She shoots straight from the throat
Under my gate, over the moat
But I'm just waiting for
My mockingbird to copy me now
Once I get the pills inside me
She'll follow through
She'll lie like a fresh kill beside me
Swallow what I do
I'll drink this venom at my leisure
And she'll mimic me measure for measure
I'm just waiting for
My mockingbird to copy me now
Mockingbird, copy me now
Baby, copy me now
Baby, copy me now
Missing Person lyrics - Del Amitri
I am lipsticked like a tart
In the cherry red of Côtes-du-Rhône
Prodding at the little fire of my phone
The lights behind the bar
Twinkle like they've always known
Only desperate little men ever drink alone
But as long as I'm here, I've disappeared
And it's vanishing
I'm a missing person doing my thing
As midnight strikes
I slip into this queen of dives
And quietly oblivion like sleep arrives
But I couldn't live without
This sewer of a place to be
Alone with my one obsession - me, me, me
Yeh, I can hear her remonstrate
You fool, that's three
What I'm doing here, ain't drinking beer
It's vanishing
I'm a missing person doing my thing
Just a missing person doing my thing
Missing the time I threw your crutch away
And ruined a perfect day
Now it's all ruins from here to daybreak
So I hang on to my chair
In this fish tank of sinking stars
Pickling their memories in Mason jars
I head out for a smoke
Leave your ghost there to hold my place
And line up with the other cheaters
In disgrace
Like runners in exile
From the human race
But as long as I'm here, this last brutal year
Is vanishing
I'm a missing person doing my thing
Just a missing person doing my thing
Second Staircase lyrics - Del Amitri
There is a second staircase
Leading from a chamber of my heart
Concealed behind a bookcase
Leading up into the dark
And the second staircase
Is tearing the house apart
There's a secret number
Written on a ticket in a drawer
I don't know if I love her
But I've been crazy since I saw her
There is a second staircase
Only I know what it's for
It is burning through my mind
I don't wanna leave this all behind
I built it all up from the ground
Why would I tear the old place down?
So I blocked the second staircase
Behind some old junk we never use
I threw the ticket in the fireplace
Forgot everything I knew
Cos beyond the second staircase
Is life without you
I can't take the second staircase
It's all too much to lose
Lonely lyrics - Del Amitri
Lonely I have been without her
Lonely I have been so long
The only thing that keeps me going is
I know she's wrong
Wrong to think I wouldn't miss her
Wrong to think I'd be alright
And wrong is all I feel
In bed at night
I listen out for the bell to ring
In the chapel on the hill
The crowd of sound from the streets around
Is a howl of sadness still
I don't think I could ever wander
I don't think I could ever stray
The mark she left on my heart
Is gonna stay
I walk my rumour through the city
To fill the empty afternoon
And turn for home
Under the mocking of the moon
The crazy thing about a golden ring
Is it will melt in any fire
But I didn't think for a minute
She would simply melt at his desire
Nation Of Caners lyrics - Del Amitri
We're a nation of caners
Excusers, explainers
We're wasting away every night, every day
Assuring ourselves we're blameless
Of everything heading their way
We use and we use, throw away and away
Caning the plains, planing the cane
Jetting the snuff and snuffing the pain
Nothing's enough, nothing's enough
A sniff on a cuff and a fag to a flame
Downing the foam and filling the drain
Ravenous men, ravenous girls
Ravage it all until nothing remains
Blue yonder, the wonder
Of getting beyond the pale
Slipping out of the jailed brain to a cage
We made in a rage of thirst
Thirst for ease, thirst for plunder
Thirst for junk and speed and candour
Thirst for splendour, a binge, a bender
Return to sender
Burn the canopy churn the blender
Rape the barley, bend the fender
Burn the embers, burn the embers
Cane and cane and cane dissenters
Ream the renters, shame the campers
Stamp the punters through
Members get a tent to hurl into
We all know where we're going to
We're a nation of caners
Who could blame us –
Have you seen the state of what
They left for us to use?
Have you seen the place
They think is fit for humans, fit for purpose?
Purpose being caning, caning
Purges in the virgin forest
Urges in the depth of dreaming
Muffled screaming coming from the cane
Desperate praying underneath the rain
Consume it all you must
Or there'll be never ending pain
A future filled with cesspits of the slain
A future that we never could
Explain for all the world
The caner boys, the caner girls
Buried in their shame
Nation against nation
Never sickening of the game
We're a race apart of caners
Floggers, torturers in trainers
Ostrich headed party planners
Carry-onners, carry-outers
Flat denial earthers, science doubters
Flabby thinkers, shabby lovers
Anti-social fatal drinkers
Shirkers, duckers, divers, wankers
Blissed and pissed within our blinkers
A caning nation
An acidic aberration
A full-force pillage through
The gifts of the creation
Heaven was our source
The underworld our destination
There are worthless whirls of bank notes
Floating through the station
Can you hear the desperate praying
Underneath the rain?
Can you feel the past
Shoving us on to the train?
We're a nation of caners
And who can blame us?
Mamma lets us follow
Anywhere our nature takes us
Fruit loop blitzers
We've got a taste for space
And need to fill the void with chasers
Need to drink to our disgraces
Peak grease racers
We can't stop until we die
Pull me back into the bar
Before I see the sky
Baby, you're working for the man
You're doing everything you can
The weight of shit you carry round
One day you're gonna just derail
Every time I pick you up
It's like I'm springing you from jail
We're a nation of caners
Who can blame us?
A nation of caners
Who can blame us?
We're a nation of caners
Who can blame us?
A nation of caners
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Can you hear the desperate praying
Underneath the rain?
Can you feel the past
Shoving us on to the train?
Who can blame us?
Who can blame us?
Who?
Who can blame us?
Who?
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