XTC Lyrics
XTC Lyrics
"Towers Of London Lyrics"
Pierre Lyrics
Prologue: There was once a boy named Pierre Who only would say, I don't care! Read his story
Prologue: There was once a boy named Pierre Who only would say, I don't care! Read his story
Towers of London
when they had built you
did you watch over the men who fell
Towers of London
when they had built you
Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell
Pavements of gold le
1959 Lyrics
Cigarettes were a quarter then Bobby-socks and jeans were in Elvis sang the songs that we loved soading to the underground
Grenadier Guardsmen walking pretty ladies around
fog is the sweat of the never never navvies who pound
spikes in the rails to their very own heaven
Bridges of muscles s
merchants from Stepney walking pretty ladies by
rain is the tears of the never never navvies who cry
for the bridge that doesn't go
in the direction of Dublin
And
and I've seen it in engraving
and I've seen it in their faces
clear as children's chalk lines on the paving
Towers of London
la la Londinium.
Cigarettes were a quarter then Bobby-socks and jeans were in Elvis sang the songs that we loved so
Grenadier Guardsmen walking pretty ladies around
fog is the sweat of the never never navvies who pound
spikes in the rails to their very own heaven
Bridges of muscles s
everything means nothing to me Lyrics
Someone found the future as a statue in a fountian at attention looking backward in a pool of water
panning so long and high Someone found the future as a statue in a fountian at attention looking backward in a pool of water
merchants from Stepney walking pretty ladies by
rain is the tears of the never never navvies who cry
for the bridge that doesn't go
in the direction of Dublin
And
The Way We Were Lyrics
Memories like the corners of my mind Misty water call of my memories of the way we were Scattere
I've seen it in a painting Memories like the corners of my mind Misty water call of my memories of the way we were Scattere
and I've seen it in engraving
and I've seen it in their faces
clear as children's chalk lines on the paving
Towers of London
la la Londinium.