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Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)

from Hello Sadness (Remastered) by Los Campesinos!

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lyrics

I am not a crutch, although my knees are rife with woodworm
And the mealworms I misheard for lunch are rotting in my guts
With a childhood of fingernails that ripped my throat to shreds
A walk that chimes like church bells from all these loose joints in my legs

These three lions that were sitting on my chest
are clawing hard into my skin as I am gasping for my breath
And as they each play noughts and crosses on the scratches they have left
I have to screw up both my eyes as it goes into sudden death.
They whisper: “Really all these noughts are circles holed, bereft
And all these crosses crucifixes, spreading guilt and sense of dread”
And as we stumbled homeward up the hill to where you used to live
the cold makes ice upon our cheeks from all the tears that we have shed

These things rattle round my head
If he hasn't blown the whistle then it isn't quite the end

Every defeat a divorce
Although I look surprised
It's par for the course I guess

And I don't really know now
What I thought I knew then
You can lead a horse to water
But it won't drown itself

This one family photograph always floats to the top
Like a beaming, bloated corpse, though having been made up
My memories are sepia but the photograph is not
An historian is fucking with them, as deadly as garrotte

Where they're standing in the kitchen with his arms around her waist
With no idea of what's to come and with a smile across your face
And all the fittings are the same but every other thing has changed
Must forget everything you know as though your mouth and tongue estranged
Small comforts found in ABBA Gold and electronic chess
When West Clewes was my Waterloo, my most dramatic test
Now I've been walking down the shortcuts and the alleys in the dark
Because I'm not scared of the shadows, they're no blacker than my heart

How could I ever refuse?
I feel like I lose when I lose

credits

from Hello Sadness (Remastered), released November 15, 2021
All songs by Tom and Gareth
Arranged and performed by Los Campesinos!
All songs published by Nettwerk One Music.

On these recordings, Los Campesinos! were Tom, Gareth, Neil, Kim, Jason, Ellen and Rob.
With Harriet Coleman - Violin, Piano, Backing Vocals

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by John Goodmanson.
Recorded at MusicLan Studios, Girona, Spain (Assistant Engineering by Jose Luis Molero) in April 2011
Mixed at ElectroKitty, Seattle, USA & at John's House, Seattle, USA (Additional Engineering by Eric Corson)

String Arrangements by Harriet Coleman (Recorded by Andrew Lewis at Cardiff Music Studio, Cardiff, Wales)
Brass Arrangements by Tom and Jherek Bischoff (Recorded at Eric's house, Seattle, USA)

Benjamin Kaminski - Viola
Jimmy Ottley - Cello
Samantha Boshnack -Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Nelson Bell - Trombone and Tuba
Jherek Bischoff - Double Bass and Good Vibes

Mastered by Simon Francis

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