Libertines Lyrics
What a waster
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
Begging
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
Picking up his daily sport
Oh now they're begging you
They're begging you
What will you do?
Oh my they're begging you
Your friend begging you
What can 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 friend begging you
What can you do?
Boys in the band
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
Not a rude boy you're the gentry
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 scream 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 I've never seen you laugh,
and I've never seen you cry
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
And they all get them out for
(they all get them out)
The boys in the band
(only for the boys in the band)
Yes they all roll them out for
(twist and scream and shout)
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)
Death on the stairs
From way far across the sea
Came an ....
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
But 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
Horror show
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"
I get along
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!
Mayday
A slave's a girl who slaves her days away,
In arabesques & minarettes,
Tablecloths and serviettes.
She's singing '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 dunno which way to go.
The mob goes fifteen ways,
and my head, my poor head
feels like a smashed window
George is 24, he's easily bored
all his life he's 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
Radio America
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
Skag and bone man
On and on and on and on and on and on
Like you even know what's going on
Into this world that I'm drawn
They'll kill you before you're born
They'll porn your soul to be number one
You say it's old fashioned same old song
That's how your mother likes it all night long
And if she says how to feel
Don't even talk about it
We could stay at home man
Call the skag and bone man
Dig our grave out with a spoon
Then in the morning picking flowers
Spirit up for hours
Til the sun becomes the moon
You say it's old fashioned, well one thing I know
That's how your mother likes it, now watch my boy go
Yes it's real, it's like your next meal
Don't even talk about it
"Shit!, we've fucked it all up man
we've fucked it all up
we've missed half the song out (very nice)"
It's real like your next meal
Don't even talk about it
The Delaney
On the bus the other day
You could tell right from the start
Theres magic in the?
Can you play guitar boy
Can you play guitar
The truth is known the drums they roll
I loop the loop on the old banjo
Say no no no
Say yeah yeah yeah
I said maybe maybe maybe
I just dont care
No it doesnt rhyme with treatury
Nothing I never did
Measure out your honesty and
Things you keep in
Things they keep in
The truth is known the drums they roll
I loop the loop on the old banjo
Say no no no
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Oh maybe maybe maybe
I just dont care
Some people run from trouble
Some people meet it half way
Others are glad to pay
Their cab fare over
And?
Enjoy the company?
What exactly do you mean
The truth be known the drums they roll
I loop the loop on the old banjo
Say no no no
Then said yeah yeah yeah
Oh maby maybe maybe
I just dont care
Say no no no
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh maby maybe maybe
I just dont care
Tell the king
I've got a little secret for ya
Even now there's something to be proud about
You come up the hard way
They remind you every day
You're nothing
Oh my words in your mouth are mumbled all about
You're like a tabloid journalist
The way you cut and paste and twist
You're awful
Go and tell it to your king
Tell him everything
Tell him you know how I feel
Tell him you know how i feel
At the palace gates
When I'm all levered of my face
And I can work out what it's not about
And see snakes in eyes
And a million danger signs
If you were late you mustn't dare complain
And you wont like this at all
There's nothing to break your fall
And you know how I feel out of place
Until I've levered up my face
And I can work out what you're going on about
Let me explain, you have to play the game
Ohhhhhh
He drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand
The good old days
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 man the decks and hoist the rigging
Because the pig mans found the source
And theres twelve rude boys on the oars
Time for heroes
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 disease 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
She says it's 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
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
You know passed myself down on my knees
Yes I passed myself down on my knees
What can you want now you've got it all
She says it's obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones he knows what I 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.
Up the bracket
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
You a way to mean no
Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
Said sunshine I would n wanna be in yur shoes
And they chased me up three flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
Help cos you're impossible
But it's just like he's in another world
Doesn't see the danger on show
He'll wind up like Joseph bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
How they suit each other oh
But you never get close
Its impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally road
Said they'd double their offer I was so bold
To say you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
Oh You's a way to mean no
But it's just like he's in another world
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
Oh you never get close
Unstoppable
I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You a way to mean no
But it's just like were in another world
How they suit each other oh no
But you never get close
Thats close enough
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