The Libertines

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• Title: Vertigo
• Album: Up The Bracket
• Year: 2003

Lyrics:

Koreema know just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her to get a buzz
Down in the street below
You can hear the drunken prophet sing
"I know whats on your mind my boy
I can see oh everything
Lead pipes are fortune made well
Take a tip from me
Climb up to her window ledge or you'll forever be

Just walking under ladders as the people round you hear you crying please"

Who really knows just what it is she does
It cant be hard for her
To get a buzz
The rapture of vertigo
And letting go
Me myself i was never sure
Was it the liquor
Or was it my soul?

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• Title: What Became on The Likely Lads
• Album: The Libertines
• Year: 2004

Lyrics:

Please don't get me wrong
See I forgive you in a song
We'll call The Likely Lads
But if it's left to you
I know exactly what you'd do
With all the dreams we had
Just blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If that's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't want to know!

If you pipe all summer long
Then get forgiven in a song
Well that's a touch, my lad
They sold the rights to all the wrongs
And when they knew you'd give me songs
Welcome back, I said

The blood runs thicker, oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If it's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't want to know

Oh what became of the likely lads?
What became of the dreams we had?

What became of forever?

Oh what became of forever
Though, we'll never know

Please don't get me wrong
See I forgive you in a song
We call The Likely Lads
We all bought the ones
We taught 'em all we wrote the songs
That's filled with dreams we have

But blood runs thicker oh
We're thick as thieves, you know
If it's important to you
It's important to me
I tried to make you see
But you don't want to know

Oh what became of the likely lads
What became of the dreams we had?
What became of forever?
What became of forever?
We'll never know

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• Title: What Katie Did
• Album: The Libertines
• Year: 2004

Lyrics:

Oh whatcha gonna do, Katie?
You're a sweet sweet girl.
It's a cruel, cruel world
It's a cruel, cruel world.

My pins are none too strong, Katie
Oh hurry up, Mrs Brown
I can feel it coming down
it won't take none too long

But since you said goodbye
There're polka dots in my eye
And I don't know why

And my safety pins are none too strong
But they hold my life together
You know I never say never
I never say never again

Shoop de-lang-de-lang

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• Title: Can't Stand Me Know
• Album: The Libertines
• Year: 2004

Lyrics:

An ending fitting for the start
You twisted and tore our love apart
Your light fingers through the dark
Shattered the lamp into darkness, they cast us all
No, you've got it the wrong way round
You shut me up, and blamed it on the brown
Cornered the boy, kicked out at the world
The world kicked back a lot fucking harder now

If you wanna try
If you wanna try
There's no worse you could do
Uh oh oh

I know you lie
I know you lie
But I'm still in love with you
Uh oh oh

You can't take me anywhere, I take you anywhere
You can't take me anywhere, I can take you anywhere
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go

No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now
No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now
No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now
No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now

Have we enough to keep it together
Or do we just keep on pretending
And hope our luck is never ending, no

Try to pull the world, I wasn't feeling too clever
...

If you wanna try
If you wanna try
There's no worse you could do
Uh oh oh

I know you lie
All you do is make me cry
All those words that ain't true

You can't take me anywhere, I can take you anywhere
You can't take me anywhere, I can take you anywhere
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go

No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now
No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now
No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now
No, you can't stand me now, no you can't stand me now