Тексты песен «Ed Harcourt»

To the Marxists and the police To the junkies in the streets To the gangsters in our towns And the others underground To the prostitutes and whores To the self-admiring bores To the drinkers in a drought And the...

Scatterbraine, they smoked you out of the foxhole Scatterbraine, you act like a priest in a brothel Naive charm, the idiot boy from the farm Father tried to save you with prayers and psalms Grace and Lydia and Dorothy...

Hanging off the bridge by a fingernail Trapped in the harbor when the ship set sail Boy, you're one card short of the pack Begging for your baby to take you back Stubbed a cigarette out on his hand Scrawls her name...

Let's move away together, go interplanetary Maybe in Chinese weather, where it's sanitary I'll go out trawler fishing, yeah we'll have tuna steak I'm on a special mission, for us to have a break We'll climb the...

Well, I burnt all my travelers checks Just to show you my respect Then I hung myself out to dry And you looked at me and asked me why So I said, "I don't mind if I lose 'Cause if I win, I'll be so confused" But that's...

Sister Renee, the jack of all trades Don't put that hatchet in my back, in my back Watch myself fade on the bed that was made Not by nurse Ratchet but by you, yeah by you Your uniform fits the charm and the wit Life on...

I'm a sleepyhead, I'm always tired I'm a sleepyhead, with no desire To face the same old day Go to the same old place And yawn, there and back again And the night is cold, my favourite time And the day is old,...

Spider has eight legs, you know Spins its web, the patterns flow There's something in my eye Bloodshot in disguise God knows I really tried Making the big time Aiming to climb high Scattered seeds can't fight the...

This is moving like a forest fire Leaving no part unscathed Too young to be as jaded as I am But old enough to feel the strain I hope that I can hold on to you The beauty that I'll never match The never ending open...

Deliciously I drink up all your tears On a piano out of tune I sit and persevere Deliriously I eat up all your words And jumble them around Till they become absurd Remember how it was They said it wouldn't last You...

Little girl, don't be sad, I've set your eyes on fire Don't say I'm a liar, that I don't love you Something has brought me down but I won't give up hope It's hard for you to cope when I'm around you Let the sun break...

I've been disguised by sunken eye I sleep in cars and shout at stars The killer said I'm not quite dead [Unverified] replied then I must hide Please don't say I'm stuck in wood That I could sink like metal should And I...

Found his memoirs in an old junk shop Dated from 1916 Sentenced to death while still shell-shocked For deserting the infantry Blindfold on and one step back No need to get upset Don't be hasty with the trigger boys Let...

The music box is all that's left in the empty house Must've left it when they moved out In a hurry to flee the town Armoured tanks broke through all of the soldier's ranks You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks...

Oh, to have a pristine claw These hands are old and sore The knuckles, they ache The bones they do break Oh, to have a youthful frown Bleed on the surgeon's gown Put plastic in me I'm perfect you see Don't look older...

Well what starts out as a warm breeze Turns into something more Like the lightning that burns down houses Or the wind that blows down doors Oh I see it in the distance It moves much faster than I think Yes this storm...

On a summer night I took a walk Out in the fields where the grass snakes hide Six years old, tall as a chair Found the trapdoor hidden from sight Fell into the blackness, seemed like hours I hit the ground on a sea of...

[Verse 1] I forgot love, the jolt from the kick, Gave me a thrill that I sorely miss. The branches I broke, The feelings I closed. That's just the way that I live [Verse 2] All in good time, you waited so long, So you...

[Verse 1] There's an empty playground With a bird on the swing Has an eye for the departed She loves the fallen king The eyes that shine from the bedding The neck that holds their head high I think I'm spinning out of...

[Verse 1] Just when you hear them beating the rings Think you clipped your masters wings Journing all [?] five all fathers Thought you paid off all your cars Don’t [?] [?] did for you Dive into things that you made me...