Intro: A E D A
You haven’t washed your face in days and your cotton shirt is holy
You used to live your life so fast now you find the days drag slowly
The only one that you adore turns your woman iceberg blue
You blame it on the bottle now, boy has this town crippled you
No gulls flying, no fishes swimming
Just lowered voice and fallen women
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It’s cold at the sailor’s rest and your king of all that’s lowly
You’re praying on a phantom check and the river’s smiling coldly
You want the life you can’t afford after all that you’ve been through
Soon it will be over, boy has this town crippled you

No gulls flying, no fishes swimming
Just lowered voice and fallen women

Man and baby and storm cloud weather
Who counts your blessings, now and forever

Guitar riff: A E D A

No gulls flying, no fishes swimming
Just lowered voice and fallen women
Man and baby and storm cloud weather
Who counts your blessings, now and forever, Amen

Intro: Guitar Rift: C F C Dm (4X)

Once, all this was silver birch, Scots pine and English yew, Hawthorne where Aldi stands
Come now, we can plant anew and crack wide Tescos aisles, with Acorns from the ground

Quintillions of sacred atoms cluster and collide
And the stately homes of Englands stained glass windows testify

The bluebell woods, where we once stood are under tarmac now
And the sacred groves, those mighty oaks are Dark satanic shopping centers now
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Ash, Rowan tree and Lime, Could Albion rebuild, Reforest Britain now,
Hornbeam and lowly spindle tree, Could burst through Asdas floors, with Acorns from the ground

Quintillions of sacred atoms cluster and collide
And the council homes of Englands plastic windows testify

The bluebell woods, where we once stood are under tarmac now
And the sacred groves, the mighty oaks are Dark satanic shopping centers now

Guitar rift:

All my kingdom for a moment more

Guitar rift: C F C G

All my kingdom for a moment more

Guitar rift: C F C G

All my kingdom for a moment more,

Guitar rift: C F C G (3X)

A moment more..

Intro: A D A D (2X)

The M58 is slick with rain and there?s not another soul on the road
I?m driving north towards Liverpool, to the house where I was born

Take me, take me back in time to a night when time stood still
With raw power, Sunburst Finish, Transformer and Aladdin Sane

Isn?t it strange how the time makes these lines on your face?
Isn?t it strange how the years fade away?

The Runcorn Bridge is bathed in light and the river runs the color of mud
These tyres are bald, I?ve got a brake light out, I just hope I can make it home

Take me, take me back in time to a night when time stood still
With Live at the Witch Trials, Armalite Rifles, Horses, Little Johnny Jewel

Isn?t it strange how the time makes these lines on your face?
Isn?t it strange how the years fade away?

Isn?t it strange how the time makes these lines on your face?
Isn?t it strange this attack and decay?

Outro: A D A D (4X)

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Intro: C F Dm C

I remember in the old days when life was good, I walked with God
In the autumn the days of plenty turned to days of none, my life was done
But I have captured a mythical beast
And she will never be released

Guitar riff:
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Through the winter chains of pillars of boyhood doubt, my cross threw out
I cursed the heavens before the Adam in the great design
The shame was mine

But I have captured a mythical beast
And she will never be released

Guitar riff: C F

But I have captured a mythical beast
And she will never be released

Intro: Am7 FM7 C

Goodbye… Flower of England
The pain never fades away after all these times
World war… And revolution
The hearts in the heart of England will never dies

Bringing home the ashes, Is more than I can bear
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Goodbye… King of sorrow
The curse of a thousand years beneath the glove
Worn down and hardly breathing
The hearts in the heart of England, never dies

Bringing home the ashes, Is more than I can bear
When winter lightning flashes, You’ll find me lonely there

Guitar riff:

Bringing home the ashes, Is more than I can bear
When winter lightning flashes, You’ll find me lonely there

Intro: D G A D Bm G A
All the kingdom’s quiet now and darkness binds my way
Voyagers, pilgrims, rebel angels and agents of decay
In the madness of my 3am’s, I’m lost without a guide
There’s a poisoned wave that’s rising fast, And I can't stem the tide…

English electric lightning protected, Green unpleasant land infected
Vulcan bombers, cornish harbors, Elizabethan costume dramas
Council housing, Shakespear’s sonnets, Turner’s sunset in pools of vomit
A thousand burning Ford Sierra’s, William Blake in cash converters;

(Humm X 1) ? D, Bm, A, D, Bm, Em, A

All my demons come at once; my sword is at my side
Tell me who will stand beside me for this fragile satellite
English electric lightning protected, Wilton’s angels resurrected
Airfix spitfires, Douglas Bader, Skinheads, bulldogs, Drakes’ armada
Knight in armor, urban foxes, Ladi Di and mods and rockers
Trident submarines, Meccano, Thatcher sinking the Belgrano

(Hum) ? D, Bm, A, D, Bm, Em, A

In the madness of my 3 am’s I’m lost without a guide
English electric lightning protected, Green unpleasant land infected
Vulcan bombers, cornish harbors, Elizabethan costume dramas
Sun reporters, New World Order, Johnny Rotten, Geoffrey Chaucer
Bargain Booze and Robert Wyatt, Happy-slappers, Toxteth riots

(Hum ? )? D, Bm, A, D, Bm, Em, A

All the kingdom’s quiet now and I can’t stem the tide alone.

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Intro: Guitar riffC F C G
Verse 1:
Naked girl don’t let the world degrade you
The years ahead are strung like pearls
Ragged boy when will your young life settle
You’re the brightest point for a thousand miles

Chorus
Lie down, prepare your wedding
Life’s hard, forget about the bitterness of life

Guitar riff:C F C G
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Verse 2:
Spent my time praying for golden saviors
When times were hard the good things came
Goodbye world, God knows he never loved me
The years ahead hang so heavy now

Lie down, prepare your wedding
Life’s hard, forget the bitterness
Lie down, prepare your wedding
Life’s hard, forget about the bitterness of life

Guitar riff:C F C G
Lie down, prepare your wedding
Life’s hard, forget about the bitterness of life

Guitar riff:C F C G C