Beautiful South The Old Red Eyes Is Back Lyrics

Old Red Eyes Is Back Lyrics

(heaton/rotheray)

 Old red eyes is back

 Red from the night before the night before

 Walked into the wrong bar walked into a door

 

 Old red's in town

 And sitting late at night he doesn't make a sound

 Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown

 

 They're only red from all the tears that i should've shed

 They're only red from all the women that i could've wed

 So when you look into these eyes i hope you realise

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 

 Listen up old red

 You never listened to a word the doctor said

 He told you if you drank another you'd be dead

 

 Old red eyes is back

 His shoulders ache all over and his brain is sore

 He pours a drink and listens to his body thaw

 

 They're only red from all the thoughts unused inside my head

 They're only red from all the things i could have done instead

 So when you look into these eyes i hope you realise

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 

 Blue is a street without an end

 Red is the colour of my hell

 Blue is a greeting from a friend

 Red is the colour of farewell

 

 Old red he died

 And every single landlord in the district cried

 An empty bottle of whisky laying by his side

 A lazy little tear running from each eye

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue

 They could never be blue