The Magdalene Laundries Lyrics

Everybody looks so ill at ease So distrustful, so displeased Running down the table I see a borderline Like a barbed wire fence Strung tight, strung tense Prickling with pretense A...Read Full Lyrics

Hard bodies, soft emotions So fast, so smart The world is at your feet But what about your heart? Fame and fortune can't hold you tight In the late, late hours of the night How do...Read Full Lyrics

Last chance lost In the tyranny of a long good-bye Last chance lost We talk of us with deadly earnest eyes Last chance lost We talk of love in terms of sacrifice and compromise Las...Read Full Lyrics

The story hit the news From coast to coast They said you beat the girl You loved the most Your charitable acts Seemed out of place With the beauty With your fist marks on her face ...Read Full Lyrics

She pulls the shade, it's just another Sunny Sunday She dodges the light like Blanche DuBois Bright colors fade away on such a sunny Sunday She waits for the night to fall Then she...Read Full Lyrics

You want to make Van Goghs? Raise 'em up like sheep Make 'em out of Eskimos And women if you please Make 'em nice and normal Make 'em nice and neat You see him with his shotgun the...Read Full Lyrics

He met her in a French cafe She slipped in sideways like a cat Sidelong glances, what a wary little stray She sticks in his mind like that Saying, "avez-vous une allumette?" With h...Read Full Lyrics

Let me speak Let me spit out my bitterness Born of grief and nights without sleep And festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdl...Read Full Lyrics