You are reading a single comment by @withered_preacher and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.
  • Ah london you're a lady
    Laid out before my eyes
    Your heart of gold it pulses
    Between your scarred up thighs

    Your eyes are full of sadness
    Red busses skirt your hem
    Your head-dress is a ring of lights
    But I would not follow them

    Your architects were madmen
    Your builders sane but drunk
    Among your faded jewels
    Shine acid house and punk

    You are a scarlet lady
    Your streets run red with blood
    Oh my darling they have used you
    And covered you with mud

    It was deep down in your womb my love
    I drank my quart of sin
    While chinamen played cards and draughts
    And knocked back mickey finns

    Your piss is like a river
    Its scent is beer and gin
    Your hell is in the summer
    And you blossom in the spring

    September is your purgatory
    Christmas is your heaven
    And when the stinking streets of summer
    Are washed away by rain
    At the dark end of a lonely street
    That's where you lose your pain
    'tis then your eyes light up my love
    And sparkle once again

    Pogues

About