Dirty Pretty Things

May the Lord have mercy on me since I kicked him in the teeth I said bye bye sinning days - fare thee well Could have stopped at number two but there was so much left to do Does cheating on her send you straight to hell? Phone wakes me up at three, a naked bod...

I know that youre out there Born ready, but on the decline To keep you from my thoughts When we first broke the line Do you remember like I remember? Lost pursuits of excellence The glory of the crowd Lives of imperialists Leave me with aching wrists So no won...

I knew all along That I was right at the start bout the seeds of the weeds That grew in your heart Self satisfaction for the factions Who formed to tear us apart Well I gave you the Midas touch Oh you turned round and scratched out my heart Oh...

Shock after shock from the snake she bites Happy hour downtown ladies night With your townie boys who make your brethren fight Night after night after night after night, Go! Come on sweetheart, come on sweetheart, Oh! It's an eye for any eye 'neath the hurric...

You look smart but that's not enough You need a course in attitude Nobody's fussed You can spend all your days Planning what to buy Then the signs all spin around You'll pay your debts in time You wanna shake shake shake To fit in all that much There seem to...

The world seems out of touch now I don’t get out so much I don’t feel the same In these bones anymore My heels are all worn down My loyalties are torn I’m finding different paths now I never saw before And it hurts less every day The paths lead me away Lead me...

We could throw ourselves in the road but recieve no comfort from street lights Why not come in for a James and escape life We're idle in the meantime Aristocrats and Architects with broken dreams Well I say the dead sea is dying you say you're going undergroun...

We could throw ourselves in the road but recieve no comfort from street lights Why not come in for a James and escape life We're idle in the meantime Aristocrats and Architects with broken dreams Well I say the dead sea is dying you say you're going undergroun...

Well it took you seven years To learn my name And I know it's all the drugs and booze that are to blame What a shame Well it took me seven years To forget your name All the drugs, all the fools And the hanging around I fell out the game What a shame What wou...

Hails to the chancers As boredom kills like cancer We need dreams For the romancers And I'm looking to you Well, the life's so lonely I need my one and only If you know love Come on and show me Now I'm looking to you So come closer, come closer, come closer,...

You got the world boy This all you make it? You had the choice lad You wouldnt take it The oldest charm Only the best for you And the years of my life, Some they were so good, But now and again I feel I was a coward Are the holes in my soul In tatters for a...

I don’t believe in anything They tell me’s set in stone They say that were together But I’m sat here on my own In the company of strangers This trigger happy scene Well if a heart do like a hind Then there is nothing in-between Oh no, no I don’t mind Oh no, no...

The fights, they never end Like the nights, they've taken me over And yeah I get the fear But I cannot be bothered All this waiting is just hesitating for nothing And the fault lines And all the conjecture from both sides Why oh why can't we change thi...

I'm in to myself On uncertain terms I put gin in my milk To kill all the germs As I pray for the day That life will return And I pray for myself But I never learn No I never learn See I really like you But I'm nothing like you I try really so hard...

I am a hippy's son I'm into porn and guns I'm virile fertile Scream when I come Related to you all By six degrees I am a fire sign I've never swum with the tide Spreading honey on thorns And truths that rhyme My stories are all tall But it's so obvious It's...

If you were my mirror
, I'm narcissus
 If you were my mirror
, I'm a narcissist So go lightly now holly, And give us a kiss 
If you swear on your left hand 
That you'll be mine 
If you swear on your left hand 
You're forever mine 
Well I know with the right h...

I’ve been chasing a dream Round a dirty little room I’ve been lacing up my coffee and screaming at the moon Its no good for my health I cant rate-rape myself And if I can shake off this feeling Then I’ll be there with you soon I need a lover a lover who’s kind...

After a month our friendship wained Cos your ambitions to a fault Why did I let you in my brain? Just look in these western eyes I've been lost a time or two Not knowing what is evil, oh Or where to go No prizes, no afterglow, Nothing left for you but kicks o...

To think that the last of the small town playboys was a little bit like me Hold on Well what could that mean? Well Im still looking around for leads Cos when it comes to playboys Small towns are bursting at the seams England’s getting fat But this suit is wear...

When you've loved and lost and loved again Then your hour will not be up, my friend Cos genorisity was Hitler's best disguise Well theres nothing left cos she went away An age restriction on your counting down days Delivering whole saints on a road For you In...

Did you ever have to do the thing you swore you'd never do Something filthy and impatient Something churlish, bold and shrewd Sit down my boy and I'll tell you exactly how I crawled right through Gathering your confidence and hear the story of a man who ca...

You sauntered off and you said how's tricks You can't mix drugs with your politics So we took and talked and lost the plot And after that everything seemed fine And as it stings and beautiful collide We watch each others worlds ride under the tide With intoxic...

There's a heart in a girl on a ship on a sea And I know that girl is thinking of me There's a heart in a girl and I know that it beats like a drum But every time that I think of the girl my heart gets heavy and I'm stuck in a whirlwind I turn to my shadow and...

Put your arms around me girl cause I don't know what to do I'm spinning on a sixpence cause I'm still in love with you We were vagabond souls put together sniffing glue Your radio songs were all I really knew Did you think I had a wind up heart? You must have...

So far dishonest as the day is long Im sorry so I’ll go now But I love you so it wont be long And the spectres in the masonry remind us of the things that might have been Isn’t it time you washed your face It looks like a burnt out fireplace And I am awa...

Run they said to a promised land Run and find us a helping hand Don’t come back till the sun is gone Don’t come back till the war is won We all set out with our hearts in hand A cold wind covered up a line in the sand All so young Nothing to lose Piece...

Four more rotations and no one will hurt These are the things I dream of I've been thinking through the drinking Though my confidence is shrinking That I might be fine The North would be so proud of you What would you do When the stars fall from the sky And y...

So when we're in the dark, you won't even look me in the eye, i got surprises girl that you won't really like, but under motorways and on scaffolding, shared all our big ideas, but if it's not the way, s'not the way, what am i supposed to say, knows when to t...

How can they be tired of England? They'll never know the England that we know. Never know where the ones with the dreams go, no. Never notice the skies with their eyes down low. We'll never be tired of England. United in rain in the cities. To channel the pai...

This is where the truth begins Where teardrops glance the sallow skin You lose your will And I can lend you mine The westway wall's So tall and bleak Reflect the words we dare not speak By the bottle's end We may have done our time What you want is to stay a...

We were so pretty now is this it You and I are too young for this No blood no lust or spit But still there is something there to play upon A flash of instant thereabouts youll miss it and its gone But still its good to be in love with someone When you’ve alway...

She could never ever ever ever ever ever ever get it into her thick head So when pretending ends shell have scattered her friends And shell find shell wake up dead Theres no card above receivers Still its all so remote Behind the bench at the rec Where she los...