Babyshambles
Gang Of Gin
I Love You (But You're Green)
New Love Grows On Trees
A Little Death Around The Eyes
Do You Know Me (I Don't Think So)
East Of Eden
At The Flophouse
Arcady
Wolfman
Who's Got The Crack
My Darling Clementine
Through The Looking Glass
Lust Of The Libertines
Pipey Magraw
The Ballad Of Grimaldi
The Whole World Is Our Playground
The Man Who Came To Stay
Another Girl, Another Planet
He Will Fall
Bollywood To Battersea
That Bowery Song
There She Goes (A Little Heartache)
Conversation Diva
Love Reign O'er Me
Lady Don't Fall Backwards |
| » Babyshambles « |
The first news was there's Americans on the shore
Maybe maybe maybe now we're all going to war
Maybe maybe maybe they will be running for the door
Maybe maybe maybe they will be screaming out for more
Got the tickets and a dirty nose
No one wants to help but everybody knows
Start with babyshambles and your friends will come to blows
And babyshambled when you're timid at the shows
You don't need no one
You don't need no one who feels the same old way
Oh it's a shame, we were just getting comfy
The first news was there's Americans on the shore
Maybe maybe maybe now we're all going to war
Maybe maybe maybe they will be screaming out for more
Maybe maybe maybe they will be running for the door
The first news was there's Americans on the shore
Arabs on the beach, lovers on the floor
Maybe maybe maybe we are all going to war
Maybe maybe maybe... |
| » Gang Of Gin « |
I get around to singing about
That gang of gin I'm in
Then you'll know most certainly
The kind of game I'm in
You sound around to swinging about
The gang of gin I'm rolling in, oh
Then you'll know
The kind of state I'm in
Who will buy my beautiful roses?
Who will buy my beautiful songs?
Who will buy my beautiful roses?
Who will buy my beautiful songs?
Oh in a nutshell
Yeah in a nutshell, oh
In a nutshell
In a nutshell
I get around to singing about
That gang of gin I'm in
Then you'll know
The kind of game I'm in
She was getting pally with a scally in the alley
Giving head for gear
She calls a spade a spade
Got slit from ear to ear
Who will buy my beautiful roses?
Who will buy my beautiful songs?
Who will buy my beautiful roses?
Who will buy my beautiful songs?
Well I showed no decorum
Spilled my heart out on the forum
Looked like a snapshot
Of the most tragic day
I'll tell you my story
The treachery it bores me
Carl and McGee both promised me
It would not happen this way
Carl is kept sedated
The frontman elevated
And McGee doing all he can to ruin my band
And keep me out the way
In this industry of fools
Musclemen and ghouls
If you're not a puppet or a muppet
Then you might as well call it a day-ayay
The truth here gets distorted
The wall scrapings get snorted
I'm welcome back if I give up crack
But you gave me my first pipe anyway
Can't show no decorum
Posts left on the forum
Was like a snapshot
Of the most tragic day |
| » I Love You (But You're Green) « |
I was a troubled teen
Who put an advert in a magazine
To the annoyance of my imaginary lover
She questioned my integrity
And this is what she said to me
She said oh, you, you're green
You don't know what love means
Oh let me tell you
It tickles you pink, oh yeah
But it likes to hear you scream
Fire and damnation, lamentations
For the likes of you
When she goes, oh just let her go
If she says she's going
Just make sure she goes
Make sure she goes
I was a troubled teen
Untroubled only in my daydreams
To the annoyance of someone or others
They doubted my philosophy
And this is what they said to me
Oh, you, you'll soon be up where you belong
But it's only blood from broken hearts
And write the words to every song
And there's a beatific smile
For the fawners and the servants
Oh but I, only I
I can see the serpent
Oh, you, you're green
You don't know what love means
Let me tell you
It tickles you pink, oh yeah
Everybody likes to hear you scream
Fire and damnation, lamentations
For the likes of you
When she goes, oh just let her go
If she says she's going
Just make sure she goes
Make sure she goes |
| » New Love Grows On Trees « |
Are you still talking to
All of those dead film stars
Like you used to
And are you still thinking of
All of those pretty rhymes
And perfect crimes
Like you used to love
And if you're still alive
When you're twenty five
Shall I kill you like you asked me to
If you're still alive
When you're twenty five
Shall I kill you I know you told me to
But I really don't want to
I remember all of the thing-things said to me
Until ... calvary
Ah you said, you said new love grows on trees
New love grows on trees
New love grows on... new love grows on trees
Are you still shaking out
All the dead wood from your bed love
Well times don't change and you're still thinking of
All of those pretty rhymes for love divine
Oh no, you really don't have to
If you're still alive
When you're twenty five
Shall I kill you
Oh I know you asked me to
But I really don't want to
I remember every single thing you said to me
...
You said new love grows on trees
New love grows on trees
New love grows on... new love grows on trees |
| » A Little Death Around The Eyes « |
A little death around the eyes
Take your medicine in your hotel room
That's your medicine
Better rest on all fours
That's your medicine
In a nut shell
Your boyfriend's name was Dave
But I was bold and brave
And now you're mine
You cook and clean and sow when I tell you to
Dance and drink and screw when I want you to
If I ask you to
A little death around the eyes
Your boyfriend's name was Dave
I was bold and brave |
| » Do You Know Me (I Don't Think So) « |
Do you know me? I don't think so!
Do you know me? I don't think so!
You romanticize the dark and gloomy past
Trying to escape from the underclass
You darkened the bright and beautiful day
You're breaking my heart in every way
And tell me everything is dandy and fine
You're no friend of mine
I took you in and you stole from me
But you still got everything I need
You're walking so tall, you're looking so mean
You're walking so tall, you're looking so mean
But you tell me everything is dandy and fine
You're no friend of mine
Do you know me? I don't think so!
Do you know me? I don't think so!
You romanticize the dark and gloomy past
Trying to escape from the upper class
You darkened the bright and beautiful day
You're fucking up my head in every way
And tell me everything's dandy and fine
You're no friend of mine |
| » East Of Eden « |
I've been wandering East of Eden
Been lost, cold, lonesome as a sparrow in the rain
I found myself tumbling to a sinking feeling
When someone said I done gone wrong
Couldn't feel no shame
I'll be leaving town on the very next train
You can wait for me little girl
But I won't be coming this way again
And it ain't nobody's business if I do
There's a slow train rumbling east of a place called Eden
Ah, the wind blowing in proud as the trees upon the plain
And a stranger's voice talked to me of liberty and freedom
Yeah, it seems like he done gone wrong again
And he wears the hat like shame
Well he tasted the fruit of another
And when his Margie, when she discovered
Said she's gonna love him ten times more
Ain't nobody's business if she do
He said "some men born rich, some men born poor
But they're rich in other ways"
Into my heart his wisdom poured
It's no good crumblin, I'm making tracks to live
When I laid my love down in the light
You should've seen all the things my shadow did
The filth and the fury, the fear and the pain
It's all disappearing now
Faster than the smoke from this old train
And it ain't nobody's business if it do
One more time: ain't nobody's business if it do |
| » At The Flophouse « |
Everything's got to be
Just how it has to be
Or he won't play
And I know that boy wants to
Approach me and say
All he's got to say
Maybe he'll say it today, maybe no
There was a slight altercation, oh
Down at the station, oh, today
There's blood on hands and steps
I'm holding my head
She's got some front, oh
Did you hear what she said?
I'm so sorry if I neglect you
I mean you no harm, mean you no harm
And I'm so sorry if I disrespected you
Mean you no harm
Oh look around, it's true
Tonight, I'll be chasing you
I took one draft of life
Paid only the market price
Now I'm estranged
And I'm so lonely now
Though I'm not alone
Licking her boot
Maybe I'll work from home
Maybe no |
| » Arcady « |
In Arcady, your life trips along
It's pure and simple as the shepherd's song
Seraphic pipes along the way in Arcady
In Arcady
Never saw I such a scene
Such maids upon such a molten green
They employ their holiday with dance and game
And things I may never name
In Arcady
You said he was your teacher
Taught you so true and so wise
But now you know more than your teacher
I see nothing but cool self-regard in your eyes
In Arcady
So you see how twisted it becomes
See how quickly twisted it becomes
When the cat gut binds my ankles to your bedstead
That ain't love, no that ain't love
Said he was your teacher
Taught you so true and so wise
Now you know more than your teacher
I see nothing but cool self-regard in your eyes
In Arcady, your life trips along
Pure and simple as the shepherd's song
Seraphic pipes along the way in Arcady |
| » Wolfman « |
Listen hard and close
Why's everything gone morose
I took an overdose
To the winner's post
Can you make the chase?
Internet database
Webpage, you're outta your face
I'm in and out of space
Wolfman
It's giving me the hump, man
It's coming like a swamp, man
I jump when you say jump, man
Get into the vibe
Slam in a megadrive
Arcade, the fire denied
I pulled my flick knifes
Sent into kingdom come
Alley-cat got your tounge
Schizoid it's fame on the run
Wanted by the sun
Wolfman
It's giving me the hump, man
It's coming like a swamp, man
I jump when you say jump, man
The spitz's on you
So what you gonna do
You got a junkie for a brother
Your dad drank special brew
From the estate
You got enough on your plate
There was a gang in the shadow
I made the getaway
Wolfman
It's giving me the hump, man
It's coming like a swamp, man
I jump when you say jump, man |
| » Who's Got The Crack « |
There's no such thing as a harmless joke
There's no such thing as a gentle toke
There's no such thing as Panama Jack
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
I am a goat
In a moat
With a boat
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
I like it when my hair is poofy
I like you when you slip me a roofy
I like it when you've got the crack
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
I wanna be a hippie
But I forgot how to love
It's hard to be a garbage man
When a sailor stole my gloves
I wanna be reckless
But I'm feeling so uptight
Put your mama in a headlock baby
And do it right
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
Who's got the crack, who's got the crack
Who's got the crack |
| » My Darling Clementine « |
My darling Clementine, you know I love you
My darling Clementine, you know I do
I bless and curse the day I found you
I wonder why
I get lost in the wonderland around you
...
...
But you're always welcome here
I keep love handy, I keep it near
And I take note of all of your witty reposts
And I follow with the famous quotes and
If i say I care, I really mean it
She's got the money, and she
She's moving on
She's thinking on
She's thinking on all the good advice
Because there's always good advice
The man with the golden arm rarely deals a joker
But he kept two aside, just for you
He burnt your fingers in the fire
Oww |
| » Through The Looking Glass « |
In the morning there's a buzz of flies
Between the pillows and the skies
That beg into your eyes
Through the looking glass
And between your thighs
And it's written no small surprise
Let's straight down the rabbit hole
There we go
I've been meaning to tell you
A sentimental thing that occurred to me
I've been waiting to show you
A set of photographs
That'll make you laugh and smile
You might wanna stick one on his nose
Around his teeth, down this drug hole of him
They've nowhere else to go
In the morning there's a buzz of flies
Between the pillows and the skies
That beg into your eyes
Through the looking glass
And between your thighs
And it's written no small surprise
Let's straight down the rabbit hole
There we go
I've been meaning to tell you
A sentimental thing that occurred to me
I've been waiting to show you
A set of photographs
That'll make you laugh and smile |
| » Lust Of The Libertines « |
The Lust of the Libertines
Is really quite tame
It rages quietly nigh here beside you
And your lust for fame
But fame is such a sinister game, I know...
It could all end this way then
Some things won't be the same
Oh just a face, and a name on a page
But I'll be soundly sleeping
I'll be soundly sleeping
I'll sleep right through that age
Cause I can deal with all...
The blood on my shoes
The holes in my soul
My spirit is tainted
All my tears are fainted
Am just so long as you...
You don't forget to... oh uh ow
Cut me on the wall
By the graffiti of all the things
I just couldn't say
Shove me up the wall
Oh my darling (oh Poor Cow)
It was a kind of loving
But you've left me in the family way again
The dust on my tambourine
Really can be explained
I need to shake it more often
I need to shake away the blame
Oh well, fame is such a sinister game, I know...
The taste of goulash in your mouth
As you stumble offstage...
Forget-me-nots bloom on this day then
But they whither with age
Oh I can deal with all...
The blood on my shoes
The holes in my soul
My spirit is tainted
All my tears are fainted
Am just so long as you...
You don't forget to... oh uh ow
Cut me on the wall
By the graffiti of all the things
I just couldn't say
Oh won't you hove me up the wall
Oh Poor Cow
It was a kind of loving
But you've left me in the family way again
Sha-la-la-la |
| » Pipey Magraw « |
One's too many and a hundred ain't enough
For Corna baby give me more oh that stuff
Oh baby, oh baby
We had a real good time
Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
I run a monkey casino
I gotta head full of beano
I hear the voices of evil
Telling me to do murder
I got my false feel
I got my false friends
I got my rum deal
I got my soul train
It's coming round the bend
And believe me
You know you wouldn't wanna be me
Nor would you want the shame or the strain of my name
But if I can live my life all over again
There ain't one single thing I'd change
Bilo, they call me Billy Bilo
I'm like a fish on a lilo, I'm all out of place
It's written all over my face
Bilo, some call me blood clot wierdo
Oh they fuck with your mindo
When you do it skag and bone
Bilo, they call me Billy Bilo
Oh they fuck with your mindo
When you do it skag and bone
Pipey Magraw
That's Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
That's Pipey Magraw
One's too many and a hundred ain't enough
For Corna baby give me more oh that stuff
Oh baby, oh baby
We had a real good time
Just me and you |
| » The Ballad Of Grimaldi « |
While there's still a fighting chance
Can't you just get up and go
And get away from this hollow romance
It's slowly binding us both
Because you tell me what you want and I'll avoid it
Tell it to the sick and to the damned
Show me what you love, watch me destroy it
For your love just crumbles in my hands
But if you stay for a while..
I'll try to think of something kind to say
And maybe if we pray for a while
St. Jude may hear my pleas
And see me on my bended knees
Because she knows how I adore you
We won't be fighting again tonight
Not if she knows I adore you
No fighting again tonight..
I laugh and fall just like Grimaldi
You wear your make-up like Baby Jane
All of those promising lies that you told me
Come on and tell me them again
I walked these streets all of my life..
The fear and hope
...
Because you tell him what you want and he'll avoid it
May as well tell it to the sick and to the damned
Show him what you love, watch him destroy it
For your love seems to crumble in his hands |
| » The Whole World Is Our Playground « |
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
I don't know where to begin
This song I hide away
But I know that you know
And I know that you've been where I've been
It's healing me everyday
It's killing me everyday
Do you still bowl around after dark
Blowing your hope and your smoke in the rain
I lit a little fire off your chimney spark
And I knew then I would never see you naked again
The whole world is our playground
The whole world is our playground
Take the night by the hand
And set it on fire again
If I hear this song on the radio
I swear I'll go out of my mind
I try not to think about it all every minute or so
But they, they... sold you as a prize
The whole world is our playground
The whole cell is our playground
Take the night by the hand
And set it on fire again
The kitchen light is too bright
And the light in your mind is a sin
But I know that you know
And I know that you've seen what I've seen...
It's all too far away |
| » The Man Who Came To Stay « |
There's a man who came to stay
The boy he replaced, disappeared without a trace...
Stole all my songs and my style away
No-one would say what they wanted to say
So he was king for a day..
If you sail into the sun
Beware the eyes of green
And if the whole room tells you 'you are the one'
I defy you not to believe them, my son...
There's a man who came to stay...
Never showing on time
Out of his mind, diddly doo doo dine
Every single gig I play
Something's not right inside
Paranoia and pride, nowhere to hide...
If you sail into the sun, la la la la lala
Beware the eyes of green
And if the whole world tells you 'you are the one'
You must be hearing those voices again my son
If you sail into the sun
Please beware the eyes of green
And if it's all too much for you my son
Well, I'm here waiting where we began |
| » Another Girl, Another Planet « |
I always flirt with death
I could kill, but I don't care about it
I can face your threats
Stand up tall and scream and shout about it
I think I'm on another world with you
I'm on another planet with you
You always get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win
I don't need rehabilitating
Another girl, another planet
Another girl, another planet
Space travels in my blood
And there ain't nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out
Oh God we won't live without it
Another girl is loving you now
Another planet, forever holding you down
Another planet |
| » He Will Fall « |
We've been running round this world too much, girl
Trying not to see
But no freer then, we can see again
Now the old corruption packed its ransom sack
Buttoned his dirty Mac
He won't be coming back with us,
He won't be welcomed back
Oh you, you never show your face no more
Slam the door
Changes...
But if, oh... if you should fall
I vow today to pay tomorrow
The debts you owe to sorrow
We've been running round this world too much, girl
Trying not to see
But no freer then, we can see again |
| » Bollywood To Battersea « |
Well it's a long, long way, oooh
From Bollywood to Battersea
Bollywood to Battersea
Bollywood to Battersea
La la la la
I was a child of the pound and the crown
I lost myself in the haze
Of the new life that I found
On the silver screen
She was a child of the movies and the dollar
One fine day I was led astray
She took me by the collar
Said you must follow me
Well it's a long, long way, oooh
From Bollywood to Battersea
Bollywood to Battersea
It's a long, long way, oooh
From Bollywood to Battersea
Bollywood to Battersea
Bollywood to Battersea
Yeah I was a child of the suicide and the leisure
Oh one fine day I was led astray
To a burning collar
Said what's your pleasue
I was born in the four minute warning
My old man said as he shook his head
"Ohhh, fuck this...
I'm off down the boozer" |
| » That Bowery Song « |
What's that song we use to sing?
It's about anything, everything and anything
What's that song we use to sing?
You have always thinking of her
You're in love and you don't know what to say
But I saw her at the fair
And she feels the same way
She was married by the merry-go-round
The merry-go-round
The merry-go-round
Merrily we go round
It was the first one of the day
It was the last one of the night
Oh hold me tight, hold me tight, hold me tight now
It was the first one of the day
It was the last one of the night
Oh hold me tight, hold me tight, hold me tight now
There's a parade of girls outside
That boy's so shy, why'd you punch out his lights?
They said you were wrongened
But I can see in your eyes
How you are gentle and wise
And you had the good stuff
There's a parade of girls outside
That boy's so shy, why'd you punch out his lights?
What was that song you used to sing?
What was that song we used to sing?
What was that song you used to sing?
What was that song we used to sing?
Sing that song we used to sing
What was that song you used to sing?
It's about anything and everything
Everything and anything
The times of your life, the people that we meet
It was the first one of the day
It was the last one of the night
It was the first one of the day
It was the last one of the night
Oh hold me tight, hold me tight, hold me tight now
There's a parade of girls outside
That boy's so shy, why'd you punch out his lights?
You have always thinking of her
You're in love and you don't know what to say
But I saw her at the fair
And she feels the same way
She was married by the merry-go-round
The merry-go-round
The merry-go-round
Merrily we go round
Merry-go-round |
| » There She Goes (A Little Heartache) « |
I, I was surprised
I was surprised
Surprised you stayed
Only to be betrayed
By the one you gave
All your love and trust to
Oh but how could I let go?
Since I caught a glimpse of your
Your human soul
You were dancing to Northern soul
Just one glance, oh everybody knows
There she goes, a little heartache
Man there she goes, a little pain
Make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
On the dirty road to fame
Oh, I was to implore
That you forget all you saw
And you can't feel my ...
(missing part)
Also, how could I let go?
Since I caught a glimpse of
Your white plimsouls
Twisting and turning to Northern soul
It was just one glance
Oh well, you know
There she goes, a little heartache
There she goes, a little heartache
Oh there she goes, a little pain
Make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
On the dirty road to fame
There she goes, a little heartache
There she goes, a little pain
Oh make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
Gonna walk that plank again
There she goes, a little
There she goes, a little
There she... |
| » Conversation Diva « |
I tell you a story, but you won't listen
It's about a nightmare steeped in tradition
It's the story of a coked-up pansy
Who spent his nights in flights of fancy
Met two fellas over gin and mixes
They talked for a while and soon got the picture
One was a soaped-up soho mincer
The other was a pikey with a knowledge of scriptures
The conversation turned evil
They talked about people
Why did you do it to so many? |
| » Love Reign O'er Me « |
I'll never really understand why I believe you
You're so sly and underhand, I think I'll leave you now
With everything I stole since we met
I stole no kisses, just some books and the odd cigarette
I never liked South London anyway
It must be true what they say
Oh well, you've scuppered all my best laid plans
I can't believe you just dismiss my pleas right out of hand
I can't believe you've listed everything I stole since we met
But I stole no kisses, just some books and a butterfly net
It's raining,
(Now it's sunny)
It's raining,
(Now it's sunny)
I never liked twisted hate anyway
It must be true what they say |
| » Lady Don't Fall Backwards « |
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
When the cold wind now blows
When the cold wind now blows in my heart
It was a summer breeze
And she would meet me
In Chinatown for opium and tea
And she always brought me flowers
Oh, but I spared you those old ballads
All the songs I couldn't play
But every giro day
Where you'd dress me like a ladyboy
And take me high out of the way
And let the horse chase the new deal away
No if we make love in the morning
Oh, don't my eyes look like two marbles in my head
But Lady don't you fall backwards
Come on fall into my arms
And don't you fall backwards
I wouldn't want for you to come to any harm
And tell me if the darkness comes
I will sing you a song
And I'll love you forever
Till the morning comes
But don't you fall backwards
Come on and fall into my arms
Come on and fall into my arms |
