I once used to think in my innocent youth,
(And I once was as innocent as you),
That someone some day might come my way,
And then I should know what's best to do.
And if he'd got m...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Family
We're at a stand-still! What she's been sending,
It's not any money a man can build a house with.
She's as giddy as a cyclone!
All the profits go for her pleasure!
And we'r...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Bill's beer hall in Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao,
Was the most fantastic place I've ever known.
For just a dollar you'd get all you wanted,
All you wanted, all you wanted
Of whatever kin...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Before the poison, I wasn't down
If you'd been there, if you'd been around
I couldn't hear, couldn't hear a sound
I was floating above the ground
Before the poison, I had lost my ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Black girl, black girl, don't you lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night ?
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
And I shivered the whole night long.
Tel...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Way across the deep blue ocean
Way above the mountain so high
People sing and loitering's freely
Songs of joy reach up to the sky.
In this time of worry and confusion
In this worl...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
So searching down and out looking for a place to stay
A place of no commitment, a place with no involvement.
I got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
One's turning, one's...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Things are never what they seem
Play a part most of the time.
What is yours cannot be mine
And I'm bored by dreams.
Bored by dreams.
I can't say the words I mean
Make myself go t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
[Verse 1]
Born to live and born to die
Aren't they just the same?
We're always breaking someone's heart
Especially our own
Life goes on its joyful way
As usual nothing's as i...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull
Well, I know that you're tired of living this way,
We've been trying to get high without having to pay.
The walls are all empty, it's not a permanent state,
Just let me tell you t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Marianne Faithfull