Bathsheba smiles She smiles and veins turn to ice She smiles and heads bow down She works the room Air-kisses every victim twice She spreads her joy
Well there's a house in an alley In the squats and low-rise Of a town with no future But that's where my future lies It's a secret, but no secret It
This time you hurt me You really did it this time you did Did you count your fingers after shaking my hand God forbid Riff raff crawling from the slums
If you don't want me I'll dry my tears and move on If you don't want me I'll dry my tears and move on You treated me just good enough until now But
I don't want to be your friend anymore You've got fifty friends knocking at your door Life is short so please understand I'm fully qualified to be your
Hard on me, hard on me Why do you grind me small Hard on me, hard on me At every fence I fall I bite my rage I stop my breath I shake my cage I swim
I stole your style Hope you don't mind I must try to be all I can be It suits me more Than it ever suited you Hope you like the new me I stole your
My sweetheart she bounced right out of my arms She was gone before I remembered to cling Did I reach out too slowly to catch her Or was she by nature
Oh Gillian she's a Doncaster lass Trains it down on the quarter past Friday night leaves the kids at home And struts her stuff on the Euston Road Saying
Oh some girls hold the ace, the deuce, the trey X-ray the deck to see what's coming Mary Antoinette she smiled that way Easy to smile when the luck is
That's all. That's all there was. Say Amen. Close the door. She gave as much as she had to give Please don't ask for more Please don't ask for more That
Only a misdirected dart At an unprotected heart I'm sure it happens every day Just a passing interlude A fresh face to change the mood I'll find my feet
Oh the last bus has gone Or maybe I'm wrong It just doesn't exist And the words that flew Between me and you I must be crossed off your list So I'm walking
Two-faced love, will make me doubt my mind Two-faced love, will keep me paralysed Two-faced love, I pace the room at night Why can't I get you off my
Oh trouble becomes you, it cuts you down to my size And you never were less than perfect in my eyes But I lost my way somehow For three hard winters
