Sweetness - Lloyd Cole

Oh, you`re a precious little prude? But tell me the truth now Have you ever had a care in the world So tell me what`s it all about You say oh you`re so attacked Well you`ll never be so right Oh you can cry yourself dry But i`d be surprised if you can munster Up […]

Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? - Lloyd Cole

looking like a born again Living like a heretic Listening to arthur lee records Making all your friends feel so guilty About their cynicism And the rest of their generation Not even the government are gonna stop you now But are you ready to be heartbroken? Are you ready to be heartbroken? Pumped up full […]

2cv - Lloyd Cole

She drove her mother’s car, ’twas a 2cv I was most impressed by her casual dress I was most impressed Inside her rented room colored deepest blue I suppose we found some kind of happiness To fill the emptiness We were simply wasting precious time Hiding from the cruelest summer sky She took her mother’s […]

Patience - Lloyd Cole

Early in the morning, just by the break of day Well that’s when my patience went away She took her bags but she left all her clothes She took her keys and left me out in the cold Wearing a plastic coat And the pressures of life through lack of patience I get the pressures […]

Four Flights Up - Lloyd Cole

I was woken up at four a.m. by your screams and anguished cries Your mother was singing in the bathroom, she will never be my child Oh baby talks in her sleep so loud We’re living four flights up but i swear right now it feels like underground Well you have absolutely no common sense, […]

Charlotte Street - Lloyd Cole

I was looking for a rhyme for the new york times When i sensed i was not alone She said d’you know how to spell audaciously I could tell i was in luck And so i forced a smile contrary to my style And she looked into my eyes She said d’you want to go […]

Forest Fire - Lloyd Cole

She crossed herself as she put on her things She has promised once before not to live this way If she don’t calm down she will burn herself out Like a forest fire, well doesn’t that make you smile If you don’t slow down, i swear that i’ll come round And mess up your place, […]

Down On Mission Street - Lloyd Cole

Some say that you may soon be leaving town Do you tire of chasing all the women around Will you never be contented with your life Will you always be the one who won’t think twice When you go down on your knees You’re so hard to please When you go down on your knees […]

Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn’t rained for six days She says a girl needs a gun these days Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes She looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront She reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance She’s less than sure if her heart has come […]

Speedboat - Lloyd Cole

Julie said we drink far too much coffee Wine and cigarettes and we never get no sleep I first met them at a riverboat party Both of them were speeding i would say I lived on the edge of all this indulgence Taking notes and trusting in prudence Julie said to jim why don’t we […]