Asleep in the Back lyrics

What's got into me? Can't believe myself!
Must be someone else. Must be someone else. Must be,

Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.

What's got into me? Can't believe myself!
Must be,

Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.

Can't stop thinking
I won't stop drinking
I need that comfort
I don't need discipline
Twilights tailing
I had self belief (They don't compromise)
This has battered me
That's my history
Hold this shaking frame
Pull this back together

What's your story?
I want to listen.
I can't fake pity.
I may not sympathise
Twy-lights tailing.
Try my lies for size
You might swallow them

Don't mix your drinks
Don't mix with him
It will kill you one day
Good advice, sound advice
Why can't you be
Like him, like me
Look what you could achieve

I'm coming cap in hand
Begging you to listen
Something draws me in
And I just can't christen it
Just can't christen it

Don't mix your drinks
Don't mix with him
It will kill you one day
Good advice, sound advice
You need to be

The whole towns slippin down a hill.
Like the spine of something dead.
Slide in shadow cobble-creep.
Burn your mark and leave.

The trench conventions yellow eyes
Follow her the local flower
The girls a priest (to me at least)
Since baptism peroxide.

And fear is not respect. Correct.
But it's the best you're gonna get
Sharp blow to the bridge of the nose
Sharp blow and anything goes.

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub
Useless
I'll be as stiff as a post
If you hold me like a newborn
Whisper what you feel
My badly strung declaration
To you
You'll spend the end of your days
Gently smiling like a newborn
Whisper what you feel
My badly strung declaration
To you
You'll spend the end of your days
Gently smiling like a newborn
Love not by degrees

Press your lips

My brother fear is only natural

You need to chill your fucking bones

You will feel Christ-like

When it's breathing in and out

Right there on the pillow

This is why we are here

Rest easy

This is why we are here

This is why we are here

Rest easy

Come as you are, sweetheart
Come as you are
You know you've got nothing to prove
I'll put you bed you can let it all go
You've been playing too rough lately

You burn too bright
You live too fast
This can't go on too long
You're a tragedy starting to happen

Just as you are, perfect
Just as you are
I'll give you the time you deserve
Don't make those promises
Don't tell me again

Been climbing trees I've skinned my knees

My hands are black the sun is going down

She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam

She's listening to the dream I weaved today
Crosswords through the bathroon door

While someone sings the theme tune to the news

And my sisters buzzes through the room leaving perfume in the air

And that's what triggered this

I come back here from time to time

Your eyes are just like black spiders
Your hair and dress in ribbons. Babycakes
In despair or incoherent. Nothing in between
China white, my bride tonight
Smiling on the tiles

Bring that minute back
We never get so close as when the sunward flight begins

I share it all with you
Powder blue
Stumble through the crowds together
They're trying to ignore us. That's o.k.

Found a hole and slipped on through
Kissed the stone and learnt the lines
Jumped the cue all the time forgetting you

Best dishevelled lover 3yrs running
Coming second to
A picket fence white 9-5 whos
Just alive

Beyond repair, there is nothing to say
Save some fading regrets
Yet I can't be without this

I want you to be around.

Spit-shone lies, juggled debts

You're a girl in this vicinity
I'm a dog without a collar on
This cattle-market cabaret
Is the Sabbath every Saturday
I'm full of wit and chivalry
Until you've given in to me
I'm a dog without a collar on
You're a girl in this vicinity

Bitten by the tail-fly
Too many times to change

It's a silent taxi ride away
But it's everything to get you there

Were you crushed?
Did I rush you?
All my time is yours
My twisted heart is yours
The faithless shit is yours
The shameless fits of love
That only smother you for moments
'Til I fold them up and leave
All yours

Oh you had to ask, didn't you?
Oh you had to ask, didn't you?
Oh you had to know
Oh you had to ask, didn't you?
Oh you had to ask, didn't you?
Oh you had to know