Emil
A Burnt Child
You didn't even phone me. Because it's not your style. To dial.
So one day if you're bored
By all means call me
You didn't even phone me. Because it's not your style. To dial.
So one day if you're bored
By all means call me
oh, but if I'd never foundYou slammed the receiver!
oh, but if I'd never found
Love at first sight may sound trite, but it's true, you know. I could list the detail of everything you ever wore or said or how you stood the day as we spent the last night on Maudlin Street...
you think you were my first love, but you're wrong, you were the only one, who's come and gone
Difficult, child, to, spectral, hand to Claude Brasseur-oh! :
Oh I know very well how I got my name
Lionised maverick!
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All over Battersea, some hope and some despair
All over this town, yes, a low wind may blow
Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to do time
the first of the gang to die. Oh my.
I wanna start from before the beginning.
you can pin and mount me like a butterfly
Please fulfill me, otherwise kill me