Libertines The Death On The Stairs Lyrics

Death On The Stairs Lyrics

From way far across the sea
Came an eritrean maiden she
Had a one track
mind and eyes for me
Half blinded in the war
With a pale young
Anglican
Who said he'd help her all he can
Showed her Jesus and his
little un-holy friend
She had no notion to please him
Just say 'ta-ra'
and leave him behind

There's a little boy in a stairwell who 
Says
"I hate people like you,
I got match sticks and cable TV
Half of
less than 50p"
We all clambered over the balcony
Banging on the
window waking Steve,
Bringing with a true love his un-holy friend
Singing
if you really need it
You just wont leave it behind

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Monkey
said to the mouse before
If she loved any body more than he
It turns you
into stone now
I'm reversing down a lonely street
Cheap hotel where I can
meet the past
Play it off and keep it sweet
It's sweet like nothing
oh
It's just like nothing at all

Yes I've seen you there
How could
I help but stare
It rips the heart out of your baby
Taken far too much to
see or think or touch
Whats real stranded on this street
That paved my
only way home
If you really need it oh
You just won't leave it
behind

Please kill me
Oh no don't kill me
Don't bring that ghost
round to my door
I don't wanna see them anymore
Please kill me 
Oh no
don't kill me
Don't go on about yesterday
You know I wouldn't know about
that any way oh no

He got nothing oh
He got nothing at all