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Allez Les Blues
03:50
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I pushed your head down, flat onto the page
I held the weapon, flat against your face
I remembered the promise that I had made
and turned the pen back onto myself
So you can stick your words of comfort
and you can take your well wishes too
We’re singing “allez les blues”
Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
Allez les blues
I know your shape and I know your size
You are the weight of the concrete boots that pulled me under the tide
And now you're marching on to a different drum, leaving my body here without a beat
A body drained of all feeling can be nothing but a piece of meat
This lump in my throat is a knot that you tied
with a flick of your tongue and a wink of your eye
(I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil's chair
I've been muddying upholstery, he didn't care
We’ve been clinking glasses right into the dead of night
he burns a fire, keeps me warm and keeps my heart alight)
You pushed my head down, flat onto the page
You held the weapon, flat to my face
You remembered the promise that you would break
and now the black blood runs through my veins
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Dumb Luck
03:03
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Baby, oh my darling baby it hurts to see you cry, it'd hurt even more to see you happy
Punished with an ugly face but yeah that's really ok, really ok, really though
Cause I got dealt an ace and I'm a blessed guy, 'cause ace is high
You got it, your dumb luck
I'm cursing your dumb luck
Sweetheart, oh my darling sweetheart, God came to me this morning, said: “you must repent, your final warning"
Half hard, half asleep, oh it was no way ok, no way ok, no way though
I refused to creep, I spat in her eye, sweet world goodbye
Dumb luck runs like two stroke through four generations' gene pools
Like your old folks came before you, they too never grew a pair of balls
When the third world war comes it will not be fought on race
We will line up here in two rows: betrayers versus betrayed
(I don’t wanna die, though I have no reason why)
The sky is grey the ground is cold, perverts gather in the shadows
Others climb up to their rooftops as they take me to the gallows
I drink myself blind drunk, I recall you in your lost youth
You were half the height a hangman's noose and twice the alcoholic proof
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Writing sleeper hits for all these weeping dip shits
Turning tricks for cheap kicks where I can
I turn ‘em with my whole damn body
She told her friends she'd got with me, she lied it drunkenly
I'm only angry ‘cause I wish she had
I wish it with my whole damn body
50,000 cotton wool balls line your whole bedroom floor
Soaked in black tears from your mascara, resemble piles of coal
We'll stack them up high and lie by fireside, to the morning from the night
Led on an ex-boyfriend's corpse I slit from gullet to balls and splayed his face to the floor
She crows: "You want my happiness, but on your terms"
And I know you're just a foot up out of the doldrums
All the finger sucking, singer fucking girls
are making me wake up in these cold sweats
I sweat it from my whole damn body
Swapping drinks tickets for all these indiscreet snippets
of how it feels to truly be adored
I feel it in my whole damn body
Blue blood, red carpet burns and the white of your home counties skin
Daddy's a patriot, enjoyed this summer a lot, but hide your jubilee knees
Me, half hard, from what I dreamt pressed in the corner of your bed recollecting what we did
Taxi cab to Travelodge he drops me off outside the lobby, lowers his wink like guillotine
Invite in for coffee when the night ends
We get Head like Nescafé gold blend
Big tip for the pretty girl waiting the IHOP
these blank napkins/unwritten suicide notes
It's dark inside these eyelids, blacker than the ink (squid)
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You asked if you could see me, before I went to Spain
You didn’t give a reason, didn’t know what you would say
but I was hoping that my breath on your face
would blow every last thing into place
The bed-spread decked in suns and moons and symbols of the star-signs
How you read how mine applied to how I would be sex-wise
and in my arms you disappeared and I seemed twice the size
Slept and woke with lips together, sleeping felt like lies
Girl, I helped you with your demons, but your ghosts are now haunting me too
That “French bitch”, an ex-boyfriend threatening to tie his neck to the roof
But if we tiptoe through the true bits we might make it to the other side
What doesn’t kill you, leaves you wounded but I will nurse you better, alright
I’ve been waking on your side of the bed as the sun’s been rising in the west
If your skin feels softer I’ve no argument to make
The weight of such apologies caused stronger men to ache
If his kisses draw the bad out, I can’t have a complaint
as they hit your tongue like sedatives while I lay wide awake
You can feel a tremor in a single word, it rattles down your spinal chord
You can catch a raincloud in an hourglass, but it will turn into a storm
Knee deep in flowers we’ll stray, you keep the showers away
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Four Seasons
03:23
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When I come home it will be with, someone else's blood on my shirt, another county's dirt on the knees of my ripped jeans
and I won't wanna talk about it
What you prise from 'tween my fingers: that the devil speaks in Scottish brogue, a love life under two shadows
But you don't wanna talk about it
The bus stands still, the landscape scrolls right by
Dual carriageway and landfill line both sides
Something verdant, something blooming, something golden, something dead
Cut into uneven quarters, all four seasons in my head
And when I lay you down we'll be beneath
duck feather duvet, new clean cotton sheets
(I love you more than ever)
As you bathe the stains from my skin only dirt is washed away, ‘cause all the bad lays far more deep
Please, I don't wanna talk about it
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To The Boneyard
03:44
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Respite in twilight, space in the cavity wall at grandparents’ house behind the apple tree
Where once you sang with your siblings now watching bodies bobbing down the stream leaving the town
I'm a picture of no flesh only bones as we're stripping off my skin to run it up the pole
and salute the breeze that ripples the sheath of the skeleton that's trembling on the ground beneath
Walked your entire country up the central reservation
Take me to the boneyard baby, take me to the boneyard baby
The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation
Take me to the boneyard baby, take me to the boneyard baby
We rifle through piles of bones
for something to chew on, for something to own
Through my teenage years at my mother's house, every evening 6 times there comes a phone call to ask:
"Where's my daughter gone?". She moved 6 years ago
Now receiver's cold, the phonecalls dry, there's no one home
And that is what we feared the most
And so we stitch our eyes and mouths closed lest we open them, breaking the seal that our bodies have formed
as a natural defence just to hold back the sorrow that friends made today will be deaths mourned tomorrow
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We need a dog on a leash as a place to start
I need a heart on a lease for you to rip apart
A hand on skin that's so smooth like on blocks of ice
Not saying you're cold, no baby it feels just right
(light leaves)
My Eyes like corks into bottles that overflow
the wine cascades down my neck like a waterfall
I'm like a dog on my knees as I lap you up
You are the beauty and beast, I get all the luck
(dark sees)
And when I kiss your chest in the morning the simple things are the hardest to say
How the most heartfelt declarations can seem like century old cliche
A piece of paper, said "write nice words about me here"
Well one hundred puppies would not have nothing on you
they got nothing on me.
(light leaves)
I want you here as naked as a Christmas tree
left up until the second week of February
It's like my hand in your hair was just meant to be
You are my angel now come sit atop of me
(dark sees)
When light leaves, the dark sees just what it's like to feel love, just what it's like to feel loved
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