Carl Barat

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1.The Magus

Lyricist:Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt
Writer(s):Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt

My love your heart beats like a magus
Only a beat like that could save us
And I do mean save us all

The eyes of many are upon us
And assassins move among us
So be wary on your way

Because men can be animals
Cut-throats and jagged wolves
Keep your wits about you and you'll see another day

We'll drink brandy when they're gone now
Dancing to our old time songs now
Don't forget the good old days
Where have the flowers gone now ?
Gone to young girls everyone now
That's the price we'll have to pay

Because men can be animals
Savages and cannibals
Keep your wits about you and you'll see another day

My love your heart is like a magus
Only a beat like that can save us
And I do mean save us all

Because men can be animals
Cut-throats and cannibals
Keep your wits about you and you'll see the cabaret


2.Je Regrette, Je Regrette

Lyricist:Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt
Writer(s):Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt

Je regrette, Je regrette
I haven't had you yet

I've been down, I've been down
I heard you weren't around

I got stuck in Harlem my ears ringing with the sound of angry
birds
Such angry birds

I'm a wretch, I'm a wretch
a tosser at a stretch
I got stuff on my chest

This woman sent me west

I didn't pay her taxi now I'm failing to impress
These angry birds
Such angry birds

When I'm out on the blow
Will my true colours show ?
I always seem to spend my time with angry birds

Such hackneyed words
Oh darling, I confess
Suppose that all that you need to know
Is I don't want to go with angry birds
These angry birds
These angry birds
Je regrette, Je regrette
I haven't had you yet
These angry birds


3.She's Something

Lyricist:Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt
Writer(s):Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt

Oh, this life's too long
If she belongs to the arms of the ocean I'll forget her
But she's something
She's something
She's something special

We need more time to live or die
Her love was mine, we need more time

Oh could I be wrong ?
And could it be that her arms are wide open, I'll forgive her ?
Because she's something
She's something
She's something special

We need more time to live or die
Her love was mine, we need more time

Let's move away before we get older
Before we grow old
Before we grow old

What use is love when your heart
Leaves you lonely
It just leaves you lonely
It just leaves you cold

But she's something
She's something
She's something special

We need more time to live or die
Her love was mine, we need more time
More time
More time
More time
More time


4.Carve My Name

Lyricist:Carl BaratDavey Raye Moore
Writer(s):Carl BaratDavey Raye Moore

Love is a graveyard
For nostalgia and trouble
Wickedness and trouble
Forgive me love

And I carved my name on the livers of my lovers
The hearts of all my brothers
Forgive me love

So take away the poet's pen, and never speak of love again
Break the hands that made a pair
And never will I need to care

Anyway

And I've cast my stones at all the guilty others
A rubble tomb above us
Of my design

And I mark my kills with scratches on the bedpost
The bloody sheets and dirty clothes
Are English flowers across the floor

So take away the poet's pen, and never speak of love again
Break the hands that made a pair
And never will I need to care

Anyway

And I've carved my name on the livers of my lovers
The wives of all my brothers
Forgive me love

So take away the poet's pen, I'll never speak of love again
Break the hands that made a pair
And never will I need to care

Anyway

Never speak of love again
Never speak of love again
Never speak of love again
Never speak of love again
Never speak of love


5.Run With The Boys

Lyricist:Carl BaratFindlay Brown
Writer(s):Carl BaratFindlay Brown

I think since we met I've got some regrets
This girl that I don't
Round holloway road
I'm seeing this girl
To help me behave
But she wants me to change
My path to the grave
I'm happy with the sound of the train
The smell of the rain
I guess I'm still the same

Run with the boys night after night
And do our candles
Still burn bright in the morning?
Run with the boys night after night
And do our candles
Still burn bright in the morning?


Better let her go
Better let her go


I love her face and I love her name
She's a different girl
So it's just such a shame
I've made up my mind I'm slippin' away
I've got this new girl down in harringay

Oh I'll go and live or stay and die
So I guess it's goodbye

Run with the boys night after night
And do our candles
Still burn bright in the morning?
Run with the boys night after night
And do our candles
Still burn bright in the morning?

Better let her go
Better let her go
Better let her go


6.The Fall

Lyricist:Carl BaratNeil Hannon
Writer(s):Carl BaratNeil Hannon

Somewhere in the North amid the drunken hunting ground
Upon a sticky nightclub floor, a wilting rose I found
I snatched her from the clutches of an evil smelling bor
I said 'I think it's over now', she said 'I'm not so sure'

We quickstepped into love
Like Fred and Ginger in a trance
At all the most exclusive balls always too drunk to dance
The snakes and devils of our past were scrupulously ignored
I said 'I think it's over now', she said 'I'm not so sure'

The windswept kisses on the dunes
The only ships at sea
Around the cape of vain hope the gods smiled on her and me
'If you're reading this you've come too far' the sign read on
the door
I said 'I think it's over now', she said 'I'm not so sure'

To save us from ourselves
We turned our fury on each other
She'd crucify my confidence
I'd hog the duvet cover
We'd tighten up the thumbscrews and still scream out for more
I said 'I think it's over now', she said 'I'm not so sure'

We followed every line to where the end always begins
Presented our credentials and they gladly let us in

We washed in filthy sin and we grew rotten to the core
I said 'I think it's over now', she said 'I'm not so sure'

Our merry dance was over
Every shred of love was gone
Everything that once seemed right, turned out to be so wrong
I woke up on the sofa, found her suitcase in the hall
She said 'I think it's over now', I said nothing at all...


7.So Long, My Lover

Lyricist:Carl Barat
Writer(s):Carl Barat

We met when hope was oh so young
I took you from that drunken bum
And held you like some father
And we both mourned for each other
Oh yes we were so full or hope than that you see
You'd be a dancer, and a singer me
You danced your dance and my sweet song was sung

I was wreckless, you were free
i took you round the world with me
So holy together
No devils could tear us apart
The lights were bright on Portland Street
And with the future at our feet
we held onto each other
But somewhere lost your way


So long; my lover
It's over

Who was that boy that you did see
Did having him bring you loser to me?
so blindly you swung from the hook our love hung from
But retribution does come soon
two lovers in a hotel room
You danced your dance and my sweet song was sung

So Long, My Lover
It's Over

Fragile wings
In a silver castle
And love that's wrought
Too hard and fast
I guess that's how it came to be
My dancing girl skipped away from me
I was blind i could not see
The mirror cracked in front of me
Darling girl please understand
There's no blood on your pretty hands

So Long, my lover
It's Over


8.What Have I Done

Lyricist:Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt
Writer(s):Carl BaratAndrew Wyatt

Oh God, what have I done ?
Another mood's come and
Blocked out the sun
What will I do when this world's reduced to crumbs ?

You're a dancer
And you move and you swing
And I love you even when you ruin everything
You're a dancer
And you dance and you swing

Oh God what have I done ?
I didn't mean to hurt anyone

What do I do when this world stops being fun ?
Turn on my training heels and run, run, run
Turn on my training heels and run, run, run
Turn on my training heels and run
Turn on my training heels and run, run, run

Oh girl, what have I done ?
Looks like I've tied you up in all the yarns I've spun
But I'll be here to catch you when the whole thing comes undone

You're a dancer
And you move and you swing
And I love you even when you ruin everything
You're the answer we can still have the sun

Put on our training heels
And run, run, run


9.Shadow Fall

Lyricist:Carl Barat
Writer(s):Carl Barat

As you lie on your own
Remember this, you're not alone
There's a song that will bring me to side
And when you want for me
Pictures leaves in the breeze
And the tears that that I'll no longer cry

And you know I've loved you so
And will 'til the end of days
But as I go, I want you to know
You are loved

Shadows fall
From the fire
Loneliness
Was desire
All these lives are just strangers passing by
And one day we'll meet again,
I'll be wind
You'll be rain

Chasing round like lovers of old time

And you know I've loved you so
And I will 'til the end of days
But as I go, I want you to know
You are loved


10.Ode To A Girl

Lyricist:Carl Barat
Writer(s):Carl Barat

What I chose was to sin
I suppose
But it was in an age of spiracy

It was your neck or your lips
I forget
Or the worlds in your eyes that set me free

39 Steps to re-have and regret
And I'm found in the place
I want to be

Stand on the shore and let slip the dogs of war
Arm and arm in havoc, just like before

This is an ode to a girl that I know
This is an ode to a girl

Let go of your frown
And lie next to me
It's a dangerous girl who thinks too much
Ours is the world ?
I think it's fair to say as such
And may it last forever
Now I'm with you

This is an ode to a girl that I know
This is an ode to a girl
This is an ode to a girl that I know
This is an onde to a girl
This is an ode to a girl that I know
This is an ode to a girl