The Courteeners Lyrics

More. Again. Forever. (2020)

Heart Attack lyrics - The Courteeners

Hello, hello, I need you to know

I don't love you enough for mindless sorrow

I'm really grateful for all that we had

But all good things must come to an end, and now I'm sad

Another year on, another year off

We flicked a switch and licked our lips, it's never enough

Expensive tastes and filthy rumours at last

Spend your weekend in the sink erasing your past

Here we go, new tempo

Make another song for the radio

Don't sit back or fall behind

'Cause the gatekeepers are less than kind

Check your numbers, they don't lie

Draw back and shoot the sky

Tiny apple on someone's head

Don't slip or someone's dead

This is a heart attack, this is a heart attack

This is a heart attack

This is a heart attack, this is a heart attack

This is a heart attack

Hello, hello, I need you to know

I have no time to read your manifesto

You suck me in like waves on the sea

But all the voices in my head say "Climb that palm tree!"

Well-educated, but manners you lack

Many close associates, not one's got your back

Terrific fingers, I wish they were mine

You're breaking hearts on the assembly line

Here we go, new tempo

Make another song for the radio

Don't sit back or fall behind

'Cause the gatekeepers are less than kind

Check your numbers, they don't lie

Draw back and shoot the sky

Tiny apple on someone's head

Don't slip or someone's dead

This is a heart attack, this is a heart attack

This is a heart attack

This is a heart attack, this is a heart attack

This is a heart attack

Heavy Jacket lyrics - The Courteeners

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

You're on the coattails

Of a keen old bastard

You want to go slowly

He needs to go faster

Growing shoulders

From holding doors

Teach you every single thing you know

And now you're starting wars

This is not your home anymore

Reaping what you sow Mon amour

This is not your home anymore

Reaping what you sow Mon amour

This is not your home anymore

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

I think I'll swerve

Your narrative curve

If that is quite alright with you

Cause you might have hit a nerve

And here come the silver spoons

On the silver screen

Where's our next Caroline Aherne?

The best we've ever seen

This is not your home anymore

Reaping what you sow Mon amour

This is not your home anymore

Reaping what you sow Mon amour

This is not your home anymore

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Come on

Heavy Jacket

Fake creative

Fake crusader

Boring, plastic, bubble gum

Holistic imitator

Don't get me started

On the lifestyle engineers

Wake up one day with Van Gough's hands

But nothin between the ear

This is not your home anymore

Reaping what you sow Mon amour

This is not your home anymore

Reaping what you sow Mon amour

This is not your home anymore

More. Again. Forever. lyrics - The Courteeners

All of the speakers

Feel like they're exploding

And you're tryna escape another never-ending conversation

Your feet are moving to a different beat

But that's nothing new

Friday is the best, you let me taste your accent

And all these ridiculous people

Can stand and watch us

If they so care

Someone used to love me

And everyone used to love you

But none of them share the pain

And still none of them get a round in

You can't see the exit

And the bartender's sexy

But he doesn't know your name

At least he says he doesn't know your name

He's playing his own game

I'll bet he's read the game

There's a special place for people like that

Smug twat

Tomorrow seems like another world

You can tell me in the morning all the things I've said

Swaying in the kitchen

The tiles are your cool friend

Until you see a faded photo of a bright young you

You settle, throw your mind back

You can't wind the time back

We've always got your back

Handshake and a paper bag

Running on empty, running on Stoli' and fumes

Running 'round and around and around

More. Again. Forever

We want

More. Again. Forever

A cinematic sunrise that makes your eyeballs sting

There's pins and needles and no one talks anymore

Read, unread

Another talking head talking absolute nonsense

But probably getting paid

Destroying everything that we used to love

Including ourselves, but especially each other

Your shoe's uncomfortable

Just like the truth

So let's run away and see how far we get

Before the blisters set in

Before your sister steps in

Before the blisters set in

Before your sister steps in

More. Again. Forever

We want

More. Again. Forever

We want

More. Again. Forever

We want

More. Again. Forever

Pins and needles and no one talks anymore

Better Man lyrics - The Courteeners

I'm bringing out my best impression

Of seven-year-old me in confession

It's never more appropriate than now

An open book, I'll open up if you do

Nothing to hide and very little to lose

It feels to me like things are on the change

I'm trying to be a better man, whatever that is

It's slightly disconcerting

No direction, no set plan

I'm trying to be a better man, whatever that is

Nobody's perfect

Go on, give us a hand

Give us a hand

Another day, another gratitude list

Remembering the Amazon, November, when we kissed

Pages filled with rhymes and better times

Finding a lover and losing them to fate

Finding another, thank your lucky stars, mate

You do not know how lucky you are

I'm trying to be a better man, whatever that is

It's slightly disconcerting

No direction, no set plan

I'm trying to be a better man, whatever that is

Nobody's perfect

Go on, give us a hand

Give us a hand

A helping hand

To understand

That I need to breathe

It's time to leave

This wonderland

Of wedding bands

And everyone in-between

I'm trying to be a better man, whatever that is

It's slightly disconcerting

No direction, no set plan

I'm trying to be a better man, whatever that is

Nobody's perfect

Go on, give us a hand

Give us a hand

Hanging Off Your Cloud lyrics - The Courteeners

I still miss you

Am I allowed to say or just second-guess you?

Spend the night in Monterrey

Is what I gave you not enough?

I don't need that other stuff

Maybe it's just not for me to understand

Burn the midnight oil at both ends

It has a habit of not paying dividends

Like a roaming vagabond

In my hometown and beyond

I don't know what corner you're gonna be around

Where are you now?

Is your brother still the man?

Drowning in your love 'cause you've taken me above

And I know it's not allowed but I'm hanging off your cloud

The city never sleeps

We're going in too deep

And we know it's not allowed

But I'm hanging off your cloud

You still phone me

Knowing I won't be asleep

Because you know me

You know I'll struggle when I see

Your name in OLED

And you know I guarantee

If I answer, no good is gonna come of it

Are you thinking if things hadn't gone this way

Would we grow older and lead each other astray?

Like when we were seventeen

And your daddy wasn't keen

I'd stand late nights in week, wondering what we're gonna be

Where are you now?

Is your brother still the man?

Drowning in your love

'Cause you've taken me above

And I know it's not allowed but I'm hanging off your cloud

The city never sleeps

We're going in too deep

And we know it's not allowed but I'm hanging off your cloud

Where are you now?

Is your brother still the man?

Drowning in your love 'cause you've taken me above

And I know it's not allowed but I'm hanging off your cloud

The city never sleeps

We're going in too deep

And we know it's not allowed but I'm hanging off your cloud

Previous Parties lyrics - The Courteeners

Relaxed dude in the coral reef

Cigarettes smoked with Mick and Keith

Francis Bacon on jukebox duties

And Cleopatra chugging a cosmo

Monte Carlo with the top down

Leonardo's on a comedown

Breakfast with Mr H.S. Thompson

Only one Chivas for me, please

I'm telling you should've been there

You should've been there

I'm telling you should've been there, scamper chase

And I can't believe you missed it

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

New Year's Eve, spying on Times Quare

Christmas trees, flying through the air

Sly Stallone smooths it over with the hotel

And Nico's on the dry Martinis

Moonlight dancing on the boat-deck

New romancing at the discothèque

Georgie Best does his best impression

Of people having the night of their lives

I'm telling you should've been there

You should've been there

I'm telling you should've been there, scamper chase

And I can't believe you missed it

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

All we do is go to parties

And talk about parties we used to go to

The Joy Of Missing Out lyrics - The Courteeners

Your head hurts from all the division in the modern world

Your heart hurts from acts of derision in the modern world

You're constantly told by cranium code you're not good enough

It takes fakers to fake, just making money and taking everything you've got

What about the the joy of missing out?

I just miss the joy of missing out

Northern skies and crystal streams

The eyes of a loved one and all their dreams

A New Year's Eve with no one missing

Are the only things I need

You're getting a newsfeed nosebleed every second day

It feels like a Hollywood horror-show of neighbourhood decay

Fear and Loathing in the Emperor's Clothing is the The Play of the Week

For everyone succumbs to the racket that comes from a losing streak

Do you remember the the joy of missing out?

I just miss the joy of missing out

Northern skies and crystal streams

The eyes of a loved one and all their dreams

A New Year's Eve with no one missing

Are the only things I need

Northern skies and crystal streams

The eyes of a loved one and all their dreams

A New Year's Eve with no one missing

Are the only things I need

One Day At A Time lyrics - The Courteeners

If I know you like you know me

I can see you're falling

I know the sunset fades to black

I know you feel it calling

Put it back on the shelf

Do it for yourself

If not for no one else

Stop shaking your fist at the sky

It's only you that's making you cry

Start chasing the dreams you deny

Take it slow, one day at a time

Heavy love is interspersed

With bouts of shame and low self-worth

I need to say you're not alone

I'm always here to walk you home

Put it back on the shelf

Do it for yourself

If not for no one else

Stop shaking your fist at the sky

It's only you that's making you cry

Start chasing the dreams you deny

Take it slow, one day at a time

It's only you that's making you cry

Take it slow, one day at a time

I'll be your rock, I'll be your hard place

I'll be your blackout, fly you to your good place

Burning in love and we are stronger as two

We don't need another version of you

It's only you that's making you cry

Take it slow, one day at a time

Stop shaking your fist at the sky

It's only you that's making you cry

Start chasing the dreams you deny

Take it slow, one day at a time

It's only you that's making you cry

Take it slow, one day at a time

Stop shaking your fist at the sky

It's only you that's making you cry

Start chasing the dreams you deny

Take it slow, one day at a time

Take It On The Chin lyrics - The Courteeners

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it on the chin, take it on the

Sliding down the therapist's chair

She's counting down the minutes

I'm digging deep and she's pretending to care

Or if I'm honest, there's very little in it

Auntie Kathleen, retired maths queen

Never thought that there anything wrong

And yet heart-ached Anthony

Would slap me on the back and say

Take it on the chin

Take a look within

Won't you begin right over?

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it on the chin

Take a look within

Won't you begin right over?

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it

I'd rather be in the dentist's chair

With Sir Paul Gascoigne in the summer of '96

Pinky promise, I'll pray to Saint Thomas More

Or no doubt you'll be cross with your crucifix

Auntie Kathleen, retired maths queen

Never thought that there anything wrong

And yet heart-ached Anthony

Would slap me on the back and say

Take it on the chin

Take a look within

Won't you begin right over?

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it on the chin

Take a look within

Won't you begin right over?

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it

Fine, honest

I'm fine, honest

Fine, honestly, I'm fine

Fine, honest

I'm fine, honest

Fine, honestly, I'm fine

Fine, honest (Honestly, I'm fine)

I'm fine, honest (Honestly, I'm fine)

Fine, honestly, I'm fine (Honestly, I'm fine)

Fine, honest (Honestly, I'm fine)

I'm fine, honest (Honestly, I'm fine)

(Honestly, I'm fine)

Take it on the chin

Take a look within

Won't you begin right over?

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it on the chin

Take a look within

Won't you begin right over?

Take it on the chin, take it on the chin

Take it

Is Heaven Even Worth It? lyrics - The Courteeners

Meet your sister at the station

Birthday brunch, shoulda bought a birthday card

With you since day one, I've been fixating

Tell me, when did things become so hard?

Everything you ever needed, you got

Everyone you're supposed to have remembered, you forgot

Is heaven even worth it?

And I tried my best

Is heaven even worth it?

And we tried our best

Is heaven even worth it?

It's who you know when you're giving your all

And yet still you fall

Is heaven even worth it?

Polaroid cliffhangers on the dashboard

But there's trouble brewing in paradise

Spend the summer self-improving indoors

Post a picture, make sure you smile nice

Everything you ever needed, you got

Everyone you're supposed to have remembered, you forgot

Is heaven even worth it?

I tried my best

Is heaven even worth it?

We tried our best

Is heaven even worth it?

It's who you know when you're giving your all

And yet still you fall

Is heaven even worth it?

Tangerine Dream's got you ticking off

Cards close to your chest, well, they're showing off

Are you sick of living with the sin?

Can you feel it underneath your skin?

Is heaven even worth it?

And I tried my best

Is heaven even worth it?

And we tried our best

Is heaven even worth it?

It's who you know when you're giving your all

And yet still you fall

Is heaven even worth it?

And I tried my best

Is heaven even worth it?

And we tried our best

Is heaven even worth it?

It's who you know when you're giving your all

And yet still you fall

Is heaven even worth it?

"Mapping The Rendezvous" (2016)

Lucifer's Dreams lyrics - The Courteeners

Seven sisters, got me twisted
In a listed building, last week
When we were finished
It's over to Stokie Newington
Nothing new here to see, son
Until the beautiful people,
beautiful people, beautiful people
Take me over the edge and don't hold back
Five-0 dive in the hedge and don't come back

I'm loose at the seems
I'm in Lucifer's Dreams
And he never ever give me a reason
Apparently it's cool to be seen
Up in Lucifer's Dreams
But he never fucking calls me back

I was busy necking Night Nurse
Sends me under, slumber adverse
When I come to I realise
It does nothing like it's supposed to do
And all the flickering lights
And the bickering fights
Are pulling me in now
Feeling good so take me over
Take a look at my left shoulder

I'm loose at the seems
I'm in Lucifer's Dreams
And he never ever give me a reason
Apparently it's cool to be seen
Up in Lucifer's Dreams
But he never fucking calls me back

The morning delivers
The knock out punch and you fall
Then comes the afternoon shivers
And you wait for his call
Never gonna phone you
Never gonna phone you
Never gonna phone you

I'm loose
I'm loose

I'm loose at the seems
I'm in Lucifer's Dreams
And he never ever give me a reason
Apparently it's cool to be seen
Up in Lucifer's Dreams
But he never fucking calls me back

Kitchen lyrics - The Courteeners

When the clouds form heavy over me then I'm gonna remember
That dance that you did in the angel outfit in December
Clear the tables and fill the fridge
The tambourines, make the call and dispatch
Clear the tables, the world abridge
For the limousines, go on, put the door on the latch

Too much love in this, too much love in this
Too much love in this kitchen to go to bed
Too much love in this, too much love in this
Too much love in this kitchen to go to bed

When the nights not finished and you're looking for someone to kick on with
Well just take my hand 'cause I know a little face you can love with
Clear the tables and fill the fridge
The tambourines, make the call and dispatch
Clear the tables, the world abridge
For the limousines, go on, put the door on the latch

Too much love in this, too much love in this
Too much love in this kitchen to go to bed
Too much love in this, too much love in this
Too much love in this kitchen to go to bed

Your loving is a death, the sun casts a mad man's silhouette
Realization's hard to swallow, we're not going to work tomorrow

There's too much love in this, too much love in this
Too much love in this kitchen
Too much love in this, too much love in this
Too much love in this kitchen to go to bed

No One Will Ever Replace Us lyrics - The Courteeners

Your razor sharp wit and a festival braid
Little playsuit like a hand grenade
Pull the pin, pull the pin
Pull the pin, pull the pin

Had your hamstrings on my shoulders for LCD
I thought maybe it's a moment
Maybe we
Stick with me, stick with me
Stick with me, stick with me

You know that
No one will ever replace us
You doubted it but I never did
No one will ever replace us
We were the best thing that ever lived

So you lost your mind
And the rest of us don't worry honey
It Happens to the best of us
You cannot comfort me
You cannot comfort me

Trying to find a gap through the crowds
With your hand in mine running under the clouds
Stick with me, stick with me
Stick with me, stick with me

You know that
No one will ever replace us
You doubted it but I never did
No one will ever replace us
We were the best team that ever lived

We were then and we can be again
Now we can't be again
Just say the words and I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side

You know that
No one will ever replace us
You doubted it but I never did
No one will ever replace us
We were the best team that ever lived

We were then
Now we can be again
Just say the words and I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side

De La Salle lyrics - The Courteeners

I wonder if the De La Salle brothers got papped
And did their Holy Mothers and jealous Fathers ever feel trapped?
Did Mary like all the attention?
And did Jesus ever get detention?

I wonder if Caesar ever did his sums
And did Joan of Arc ever slip and slice her thumbs, chopping onions in double Home economics?
And would Archimedes have liked electronics?

Panic stations don't set in, don't worry if you're not getting
The reward, that you think you deserve
Good things come to those who wait, god knows I've waited patiently
Take a ticket, there's a seat here next to me

The number 17 and Steve McQueen
Seem an unlikely combination considering his elevation,
to Hollywood god and all-round blonde Adonis
I can't see him settling down in Heaton Norris

Would Elvis have been able to adapt?
Would he have gone to court over reports his phone was tapped?
Would Priscilla remain and reside by his side,
with the lonely loyalty of being his bride?

Panic stations don't set in, don't worry if you're not getting
The reward, that you think you deserve
Good things come to those who wait, god knows I've waited patiently
Take a ticket, there's a seat here next to me

Panic stations don't set in, don't worry if you're not getting
The reward, that you think you deserve
Good things come to those who wait, god knows I've waited patiently
Take a ticket, there's a seat here next to me

Tip Toes lyrics - The Courteeners

Now I'm coming up like the sun

When we were 18, you said we'd meet up when we were 30
And see where the land lies, but now we're fucked 'cause there isn't landlines
And I don't have your email, just the 0161 and then some
But if you can here this then my sister's got a number for dresses

Table tennis shoes at the cash register
then I register just how much you mean
Turning me on like a fragile wind
Turning into a steam train
Slowly knocking me down and taking me on to the next place
Turn me on to the next phase

Now I'm coming up like the sun,
like that July morning at yours

You've got both hands flat down on the window frame
And I am, I am right behind you
And you are, you are on your tip toes
Your tip toes, you are on your tip toes

The thrill of the thigh as it lies against mine
Underneath the duvet, under the cover of the night
A first team if there ever was one
Making plans in our heads, creating history in your bed
That no one will ever be aware of
Except the gods and next door

Now I'm coming up like the sun,
like that July morning at yours

You've got both hands flat down on the window frame
And I am, I am right behind you
And you are, you are on your tip toes
Your tip toes, you are on your tip toes

Now I'm coming up like the sun

You've got both hands flat down on the window frame
And I am, I am right behind you
And you are, you are on your tip toes
Your tip toes, you are on your tip toes

Not For Tomorrow lyrics - The Courteeners

I need some summer sun
A week away from everyone
Hey darling pessimist
I guess I'll be back again
As soon as Julie needs a friend
Hey gorgeous narcissist

This is not goodbye
(This is not goodbye)
It's just a break in proceedings
How best to describe
(How best to describe)
Something bad that's appealing

It's heavy and it's taking us down now
It's heaven and we're tasting it now
You know this is not for tomorrow
The ignorance was bliss
She scratched her ear and gave the clouds a kiss
This is not for tomorrow

I want a winter break
Get loaded, make some bad mistakes
Forget lessons that I've learnt
And I'll walk the city at night
And make it back by candlelight
And think of all the bridges that I've burnt

This is not goodbye
(This is not goodbye)
It's just a break in proceedings
How best to describe
(How best to describe)
Something bad that's appealing

It's heavy and it's taking us down now
It's heaven and we're tasting it now
You know this is not for tomorrow
The ignorance was bliss
She scratched her ear and gave the clouds a kiss
This is not for tomorrow

It's heavy and it's taking us down now
It's heaven and we're tasting it now
You know this is not for tomorrow
The ignorance was bliss
She scratched her ear and gave the clouds a kiss
This is not for tomorrow

Finest Hour lyrics - The Courteeners

If I gave you my finest hour
Would you stick around?
Cause I'm sick of giving my favourite rhymes
To the girls who just leave town
One got married and one had kids,
One out-priced me in West Dids
And when I see her I try and make amends
She put her foot down in her fella's Benz

You know that I can't compete with that
I can't compete with that
Its a fact

One did one to Echo Park
With an old penpal whose now an oligarch
She sent my boxes one by one
I'll Fed-Ex his Xmases at once

And as I unpacked the Eric shirt
And The National prints from the last concert
I thought I'll probably never see that girl again

You know that I can't compete with that
I can't compete with that
Its a fact

You know that I can't compete with that
I can't compete with that
Its a fact

The Dilettante lyrics - The Courteeners

Maybe I'll go travelling and marry a French girl, improve my verbs
And I can tell her that I think that her world is nothing short of superb
Get a cheap flight home, and take her to my mothers
Dream up absurd scenarios where I get on well with her brothers

Take her to town and see how new love beats jealousy
You're not the only one, you're not the only one
Who wants to get away, we wanna get away
Let's escape and make mistakes again

You're not the only one, you're not the only one
Who wants to get away, we wanna get away
Let's escape and make mistakes again

Maybe I'll unravel and seek solace in Paris, get me away from here
Kick my loafers on the banks of the Saint Martin, it's such a preferable atmosphere
And if you happen to be there, go ahead and make my day
And we can chat about the labour reforms like we know, sipping on a Beaujolais

Take me to town and see how new love beats jealousy
You're not the only one, you're not the only one
Who wants to get away, we wanna get away
Let's escape and make mistakes again

You're not the only one, you're not the only one
Who wants to get away, we wanna get away
Let's escape and make mistakes again

You're not the only one, you're not the only one
Who wants to get away, we wanna get away
Let's escape and make mistakes again

You're not the only one, you're not the only one
Who wants to get away, we wanna get away
Let's escape and make mistakes again

Modern Love lyrics - The Courteeners

We got style and we got grace
We run wild and never dance alone
In this town she's fucking famous
But this town will never be her home

The sun sets on a promise kept
And I try but I don't need...

This modern love, this modern love
Oh it always lets me down
This modern love, this modern love
Oh it always lets me down

The popularity trap strikes again
You don't need this fools cause you're incroyable
(Which is French for incredible)
We found solace at the star and garter
No malice, I can feel you coming alive

Ignore the warning signs
And we try but I don't need this...

This modern love, this modern love
Oh it always lets me down
This modern love, this modern love
Oh it always lets me down

A bare mattress, a lockless door
Two Whittington hearts on pique assiette floor
Give me back those awkward exchanges
the fumbles on bathtubs, when we were just strangers
We talk about your graduation and the realization that we might not be together forever and ever. Amen

Wide eyed and up all night
This could be good but I don't want to shy away I hear them say 'romance is dead' and I don't need this...

This modern love, this modern love
Oh it always lets me down
This modern love, this modern love
Oh it always lets me down

Most Important lyrics - The Courteeners

I wish you would come to and see them for all that they are.
Now I can see that you needed me when you grabbed my hand at the bar.
You were asking for help and I know that you've dealt with the circus many times before.
Now I know that and I'm looking back I should've followed you step by step to the stage door

You may not know it cause I don't always show it.. But you are the most important thing in my life [x2]

Badly dressed, easily impressed, I swear these aren't my friends.
They sing the same old song, and I don't belong here, tell me when it ends.
It's just one more drink, at least I think, that's what I uttered over and hour ago.
Selfish blunder, sends me under, I should've followed you step by step to the stage door

You may not know it cause I don't always show it.. But you are the most important thing in my life

The 17th lyrics - The Courteeners

When you come home the neighbours look at you funny
Thank someone, I don't know, maybe God
That you're not new money
So it's up the stairs and lock the world away
And then it's phone off for the rest of the day

The afternoon is peppered with regret
And all the things that you're trying to forget
Well just know that you're not on your own
No, you're not on your own

Yellow Lambretta is knocked on its side
It's begging you to steal it and go for a ride
Just let me know and I'll meet you in the 17th
And you can bore me again with how much you love Halloween
How much you love Halloween

Your afternoons are peppered with regret
And all the things that you wanna forget
Well just know that you're not on your own
No, you're not on your own

If you've risen just the second that the sun goes down
You wash away your sins and feel the pull of the town
Know that you're not on your own
No, you're not on your own

Everyone can hear you but nobody's listening
We've got another wedding and another christening
We have to go to before we get to the summer
Might have to back door it and do another runner

Like someone I used to know
But please don't go there
Because we're having such a good time
Having such a good time
We're having such a good time
Having such a good time

The Irish bar is kicking out for the first time
It seems nobody is playing Shanghai like last night
So let's find that place with the pink neon sign
The one that points to you and says, "Do you wanna be mine?"

Everyone can hear you but nobody's listening
I wanna be someone but haven't got the discipline
A perfect picture for everyone to see
Never get emotional, get another degree

Like someone I used to know
But please don't go there
Because we're having such a good time
Having such a good time
We're having such a good time
Having such a good time

"Concrete Love" (2014)

White Horses lyrics - The Courteeners

Cold crystal sunrise
Amber on a traffic light
Bold brittle blue eyes
There's a riot that you're trying to incite

[Chorus:]
The ocean's hard
Against your skin
Temptation of two forces
You think you should
I wish you would
While we watched the white horses

Uncontrolled God's in your mind
Tugging on your Jekyll & Hyde
Tenfold, it's not that you're not kind
But it's there, it's there, it's always always there

[Chorus x2:]
The ocean's hard
Against your skin
Temptation of two forces
You think you should
I wish you would
While we watched the white horses

How Good It Was lyrics - The Courteeners

And then she's here and then she's gone,
Never to be seen again,
And then she's here and then she's gone,
Never to be seen again.

I'm trying not to think of her
But think of nothing else,
And the sight of her shoes
At the end of the bed,
And the gap on the wall
Where she hangs up her jacket
I try not to think of her
But you see I'm on a losing streak,
And the bathroom's is bare,
And the kitchen's cold,
And the nights are long,
Now try and remember...

How good it was, even if it's over
Please remember,
They way that we were in our own little world
Back when we were young,
How good it was, even if it's over
Please recall
The time that we said that we'd never regret
Back when we were young

And then she's here and then she's gone
Never to be seen again,
And then she's here and then she's gone
Never to be seen again.

I try not to think of you
But think of nothing else,
And here's to you out and enjoying
Yourself well I hope that
You are but not that much,
Are you checking your phone
To see if I care?
Are you secretly wishing
I want you there?
Do you still think of me favourably?
I hope that you do,
Please say you remember...

How good it was, even if it's over
Please remember,
They way that we were in our own little world
Back when we were young,
How good it was, even if it's over
Please recall
The time that we said that we'd never regret
Back when we were young

How good it was, even if it's over
Please remember,
They way that we were in our own little world
Back when we were young,
How good it was, even if it's over
Please recall
The time that we said that we'd never regret
Back when we were young

Small Bones lyrics - The Courteeners

She left her coat down in the club
To see if I would offer mind
Rather wrap my arm around her
Feel the small bones in her spine

She moved to London yesterday
Told me I had missed my chance
Didn't seem to seem that way
When she's asking me to dance
When she's asking me to dance
When she's asking me to dance
When she's asking me to dance

Sunglasses tucked down her top
I'd break the law to catch her eye
Her effervescence was effortless
Nonchalant, Bona-Fide

She doesn't live that far away
Medium-distance romance
Just a virgin pendolino
And she's asking me to dance
And she's asking me to dance
And she's asking me to dance
And she's asking me to dance

Small bones
Rest on me now
Rest on me now

Be weirder, said what you need to say

I've seen you in my dreams honey
I've watched you in my sleep
We were drinking in the bars darlin'
Dancing down the street

Has He Told You That He Loves You Yet lyrics - The Courteeners

I've seen him looking over his shoulder
I can see your love getting
Colder and colder
I can see the girls that he
Takes out drinking
I can see the sordid thoughts
That he's thinking

It's written on his face
It's written on his jacket
And the way that his arms are dug deep right
Down in his pockets

He's fumbling around
For an excuse again

Has he told you that he loves you yet
I'm just worried you'll get used again
Has he told you that he loves you yet
He's breaking your heart
He's breaking away for a brand
New start and you can't see

The velvet rut looms large
And stands tall
A pelvic strut and then watch
His eyes crawl
This is not the fairytale you asked for
One day he adores you
The next he lambastes or

Throws a little glare
It used to be a twinkle
And the sweet little nothings that he
Whispered have all but gone away

He's fumbling around
For an excuse again

Has he told you that he loves you yet
I'm just worried you'll get used again
Has he told you that he loves you yet
He's breaking your heart
He's breaking away for a brand
New start and you can't see

Get out girl
Go get out girl
That boy he
Don't deserve you

It's going downhill
Quicker and quicker
He won't hold your hand
And he can't hold his liquor
His empty promises fall on the floor
And he's not far behind
You can't take anymore

It's written on his face
And the curl of your painted lower lip
And we think that you probably
Should just abandon ship

He's fumbling around
For an excuse again

Has he told you that he loves you yet
I'm just worried you'll get used again
Has he told you that he loves you yet
He's breaking your heart
He's breaking away for a brand
New start and you can't see

Black & Blue lyrics - The Courteeners

You were different yesterday
Further away
Further than you'd ever say
What've you seen?
What've you heard?
Was it something that I said?
Have you had another stranger in your bed?

[Chorus:]
Say it isn't so
And that I'm being overblown
Absence making me ponder
Say it's not too late
And we could be
You and me
What we were once more
What we were once more

I pull your body next to mine
I know I shouldn't
I should pull this plaster off
Knives are out
As I beat myself black and blue

[Chorus x2:]
Say it isn't so
And that I'm being overblown
Absence making me ponder
Say it's not too late
And we could be
You and me
What we were once more
What we were once more

International lyrics - The Courteeners

You wanna talk about cocky
It's like Mohammed Ali
Tag-teamed with Rocky
The greatest of all time
A Marqués De Riscal '49

But is he made up for the night?
I'm untouchable, I am out of sight
Cover the cuts with glitter
I am a qualified pro good time transmitter

I'm principle, I'm alright
I'm principle, I'm invincible

International worrier
Takes the world by storm
Takes the world by storm

I'm ten bears, I'm ten feet tall
Set the pins up I am the bowling ball
Only time will tell

And he's rattling the shutters of
His private hell

Wake me up, when you're done
Please keep soldiering on
Cause without you where would I be?
Lost for words
Lost at sea

I'm principle, I'm alright
Out of principle, I'm invincible.

International worrier
Takes the world by storm
Takes the world by storm

Prepare the dissonance each night
As the ghosts of doubt
Flicker in and flicker out
Of the candle light

Smoke and mirrors mirror us
Your brain is full
Banks are over-flowing
And there is no sign of slowing down

[x2]
International worrier
Without you where would I be?
Lost for words
Lost at sea

Next Time You Call lyrics - The Courteeners

Back down
Wind your neck in
Feel the paranoia set in
All in all
A normal day for you

A life of people saying "Yes"
Has left you in a right mess
All in all
A normal day for you

You know the feelings
That I have for you
You try and reel me in
And then you choose
To make me wait a week
And then perhaps you will see
But I'm not sure I will be
There next time you call

Because I hate your love
You know that I hate your love
I know that I hate your love
Baby, I hate your love

Come down
Buckle up
She presses her lip to the cup
All in all
A normal day for you

Sit straight watch your back
Count the cards that have
Been stacked
All in all
A normal day for you

You know the feelings
That I have for you
You try and reel me in
And then you choose
To make me wait a week
And then perhaps you will see
But I'm not sure I will be
There next time you call

[x2]
Because I hate your love
You know that I hate your love
I know that I hate your love
Baby, I hate your love

Summer lyrics - The Courteeners

So I said, I said, "What's your name
And where'd you wanna go from here?"
She gimme a little grin
And it went from ear to ear

She said, "This feels right
Everything tonight"
Forget the breath of the rest of the room
They'll flog themselves to death
And we'll be under the moon

I don't have to go
I could always stay
In this embrace forever
Or at least one more day
One more day

So I said, I said, "Where do you belong?"
I saw that little twinkle in her eye
She pulled me up and said "Dance to this song"
I said, "Now, this feels right
Everything tonight
Forget the eyes of the monsters green
A collection of critters cutting a desperate scene."

I don't have to go
I could always stay
In this embrace forever
We're not listening anyway

I don't have to go
I would like to stay
In this embrace forever
Or at least one more day
One more day

I don't have to go
I could always stay
In this embrace forever
We're not listening anyway

I don't have to go
I would like to stay
In this embrace forever
Or at least one more day
One more day

Saboteur lyrics - The Courteeners

She'll make you wait
While she works the room
Like a lightening ice skate
Like a sonic boom
She'll bite your tongue
And she'll pull your lips
You see as evenings go
This was not the script

She was a saboteur

Trembling madness 'round the room
Two empty pockets and one full moon
The wolf is howling louder now
Baby, please stop, with the fire stare
I'm burning down without a prayer
The wolf is howling louder now

That girl, those shoes
Embossed onto your brain
Throat closing up
Close to throwing up
Ascertain...
Why your hands don't feel
Connected to your arms
An when her eyes meet yours
She sets off your alarms

She's a saboteur

Trembling madness 'round the room
Two empty pockets and one full moon
The wolf is howling louder now
Baby, please stop, with the fire stare
I'm burning down without a prayer
The wolf is howling louder now
Baby, please stop

Dreamers lyrics - The Courteeners

The charts are full of cartoons and lawyers,
Having a gap year before chosing employers.
What about my life?
Who is singing about that?
They're all very vacuous,
And oh so pretty to look at.

Dreamers, writers,
Risk takers and fighters.

Dreamers, writers,
Come on and unite us.

He's up early, see's the sunrise,
Works late and makes last orders,
Big burly heartbeat,
Working for his daughters.
Kindling in the fire,
As he fumbles for his cane,
As if on a rippling high-wire,
He struggles and he sways.
Dreamers, writers,
Risk takers and fighters.

Dreamers, writers,
Come on and unite us.
What are we waiting for,
Are you gonna let them win?
What are we waiting for,
Are you ready to begin?

Begin with me.
Cocker spaniel lays spark out,
Tired from chasing his owner,
Who's chasing his dreams,
As they unravel ream by ream.
The charts are full of cartoons and lawyers,
Having a gap year before chosing employers.
What about my life?
Who is singing about that?
They're all very vacuous,
And oh so pretty to look at.

Dreamers, writers,
Risk takers and fighters.

Dreamers, writers,
Come on and unite us.
What are we waiting for?
Are you gonna let them win?
What are we waiting for,
Are you ready to begin?

Begin with me.
Begin with me.

Beautiful Head lyrics - The Courteeners

We could go walking
You could put your arm through mine
We'll take a bottle and forget about the time
And sway home later.

I'll take a picture and you won't want me to
I'll take another, God you look amazing you
You look amazing, you

It could just be us two
We could make some plans
I could laugh at your jokes that I don't understand
Make demands of me
It's not just your beautiful
It's not just your beautiful head
That makes me feel this way

We'll stay up all night and dance upon the rocks
We'll get a hotel and sleep until they knock
Let them break the door down

I could make an effort to fit in with your friends
I'd make an effort to keep you away from mine
All the time

It could just be us two
We could make some plans
I could laugh at your jokes that I don't understand
Make demands of me
It's not just your beautiful
It's not just your beautiful head
That makes me feel this way

It's not just your beautiful
It's not just your beautiful head
That makes me feel this way

Another year and you might as well murder me
Tie me up in ribbons and force feed me butterflies
As the eyes roll back
As the eyes roll back
As the eyes roll back to the skies

It's not just your beautiful
It's not just your beautiful head
That makes me feel this way

We're exhausted
But we're excited
We're exalted and united
Let's fill our boots
And start all over again

That Kiss lyrics - The Courteeners

The way that you looked at him
And then you looked at me
You must think that I'm proper blind
Proper blind not to see
That I was just a stop gap
Sitting somewhere in-between his hand and his lap
Let me tell you that I wasn't born yesterday, my dear

That kiss it lasted too long
And we probably shouldn't have danced to that song
It was nothing
It was everything
It's really such a shame
It's so hard to explain to you

He's back in town tonight
He's expecting you round a quarter to nine
But you won't be there
Cause he bores the proverbials off you
If he only knew what you thought
The lust, the lack of trust, the temptation you fought
He's worthless, the maxims he flouts
And he's just a passing fashion and he's on his way out

That kiss it lasted too long
And we probably shouldn't have danced to that song
It was nothing
It was everything
It's really such a shame
It's so hard to explain to you

I know that I shouldn't but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn't but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn't but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn't but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn't but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn't but I enjoyed it

That kiss it lasted too long
And we probably shouldn't have danced to that song
It was nothing
It was absolutely everything
It's really such a shame
It's so hard to explain to you

That kiss, that girl, that place that you go
Where is she now?
You don't even know

Smiths Disco lyrics - The Courteeners

Please
Please can we
Please can we go
To the Smiths disco
Everyone will be there
And I'll choose what to wear
About four weeks before

On the corner
Of Fairfield street
Where the ladies of the night tend to meet
If I'm not there I will be at the bank near platform eleven
Soon we'll be in heaven

And you can take
Your cliquey discos where the girls get dressed
Up to the nines and down on the knees
And give you what you please
But I'm not into that
Have you seen the company in with which you're sat

I will see Peter G
Rob 'n' Shaun make it three
And I'll make it four
Stumble through the door
Entirely embarrassing fashion

And you can take
Your cliquey discos
Where the girls get dressed
Up to the nines and down on the knees
And give you what you please
I'm afraid that's not for me

Que sera
Sera

Please
Please can we
Please can we go
To the Smiths disco
Everyone will be there
And I'll choose what to wear
About four weeks before

Winter Wonderland lyrics - The Courteeners

Winter wonderland
The children are far too scared to go out and play
Winter wonderland
It looks beautiful on a postcard
It's bloody annoying after a day

I saw your face in a dream I had last night
You were on your way to space
But I think you missed your flight
You were leaving this world
You were up on a cloud in a room with a view
Until I woke up and I was lying next to you

Winter wonderland
The mayor acts like the songs are contraband

I saw your face in a dream I had last night
You were on your way to space
But I think you missed your flight
You were fussing over the tree as per
The lights and the tinsel are up
You didn't have the manners to admit that you fucked up

So where do you get
Where do you get
Where do you get off girl?
Is it somewhere in between the sheets
So now you come on
Now you come on
Now you come on all strong
You tell me of your sister stood next door

I saw your face in a dream I had last night
You were on your way to space
But I think you missed your flight
You were leaving this world you were up in the clouds
And you couldn't undo all the things you said
But I'm still lying next to you

EP: "How Good It Was" (2014)

How Good It Was lyrics - The Courteeners

Hometown One lyrics - The Courteeners

Do the streets light up as you grace them?
Do the birds sing your b-sides as you walk by?
Do you get preferential treatments from taxi drivers?
Do you find it hard fighting off admirers?

Oh my hometown one
Where've you been hiding all my life?
Oh my hometown one
Where've you been hiding all my life?

I looked up from a dull grey Monday
A flash of your red dress cuts through the masses
You've got perfect skin
That would make a Lankan model blush
This world is your canvas
My darling, you are the brush

Oh my hometown one
Where've you been hiding all my life?
Oh my hometown one
Where've you been hiding all my life?

A little leather jacket
Look you're never gonna find
Another one like you
Likes me like you like me
I wish you would see how good this could be

Oh my hometown one
Where've you been hiding all my life?
Oh my hometown one
Where've you been hiding all my life?

Sunflower lyrics - The Courteeners

Six acres of concrete wasteland,
One sunflower standing tall.
I didn't know your name, I didn't know your fame, I just liked you (that's all)

I can not buy you diamond rings, for Christ sake! I can barely sing
...I feel like a teenager in danger of doing that "falling for" thing
I didn't mean for this to happen but the greatest things happen
By accident, like the apple... on Issac's head.

We sat for hours, you measured your thumb against mine
Electricity, shooting down my spine.
We sat for hours, we waited 'til the sun went down
Alighted the night bus, nowhere near this town...

Six acres of concrete wasteland, one sunflower standing tall,
I didn't know your name, I didn't know your fame, I just proper liked you,
That's all

We talked historys and pasts,
I let you read the second draft,
Converging through the afternoon.
We sat for hours, you measured your thumb against mine... Electricity, shooting down my spine.
We sat for hours... You weathered my monologue, a burning beacon, burning through the fog.

Standing out from the crowd. That's just the way you are,
To look back I should not be around, I'll {open} movie star.
The girls that call in envy, the guys that call in envy.
Be la de da de daa de da dee doooh

We sat for hours, you measured your thumb against mine
Electricity, shooting down my spine.
We sat for hours, we waited 'til the sun went down
Alighted the night bus, nowhere near this town...

Six acres of concrete wasteland, one sunflower standing tall,
I didn't know your name I didn't know your fame, I just liked you, that's all.

Why Are You Still With Him? lyrics - The Courteeners

He only calls you up when he wants something
Like a wasp that's lost its sting
I think he'd look good on a windscreen

He'll hang you out like the bedsheets on the line to dry
You gotta be strong, be tall, be thick, be false.
Don't let him crucify

So why are you still with him?
I wanna say that he's played with your heart for the last time
But we both know that is just a dream of mine

He's running rings round you whilst you shop for yours
When it rains it fucking pours
The weather never changes in your town

The life of Riley is one he occupies
I'm not obsessed and I'm not a spy
I've better things to do in my spare time, honest

So why are you still with him?
I wanna say that he's played with your heart for the last time
But we both know that is just a dream of mine

So why are you still with him?
I wanna say that he's stayed in your bed for the last time
But we both know that is just a dream of mine

"Anna" (2013)

Are You In Love With A Notion lyrics - The Courteeners

Run away from this God forsaken place
And hide away from everybody's prying face
You told Deborah that he is the one
You're going to quit Debenhams
Elope and get married in the sun

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one for you?

Why are you so in love with
Why are you so in love with a notion?
It doesn't do you any good
It doesn't do you any good at all

You linger on a feeling
That you can't quite put your finger on
Reminiscent of a summer in the Isle of Wight
But you think that it's too late
To back out at this stage
You need to emancipate
Step back and disengage

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one for you?

Why are you so in love with
Why are you so in love with a notion?
It doesn't do you any good
It doesn't do you any good at all

I dunno if he'd stay or if he be on his pedalo
Cramping from the frantic pace
You told Alison next door
That all your dreams were made
But then your home screen flashed some more
He never was one for serenade

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one, really the one?

Have you really thought this through?
Is he really the one for you?

Why are you so in love with
Why are you so in love with a notion?
It doesn't do you any good
It doesn't do you any good at all

Lose Control lyrics - The Courteeners

Lately I've been going through
One or two things that would make the nurses on the ward turn blue
Rabbit in the headlights with no place else to go
Can you pinpoint the place where you lost control?

Where did you lose control?
Where did you lose control?

You looked amazing, radiant like the sun
I was hold up in the hall of holes hiding from everyone
If I dried up, then I'll come back drowned
Welcome to this town

Where did you lose control?
Where did you lose control?

Rabbit in the headlights with no place else to go
Can you pinpoint the place where you lost control?

Where did you lose control?
Where did you lose control?

Van Der Graaff lyrics - The Courteeners

Live a little bit
Have a little laugh
Roll up your sleeves and
Stick 'em on the Van Der Graaff
And watch it float away
She said "never do this, never do that,
Watch where you're swinging that rounders bat"
What do you know?
I could've been MLB

Heart like a stone
Messages on my phone
Aftermath.
I don't need you in my life
But I want you tonight
Van Der Graaff

Complicated and pointless
Thinking of better elsewheres
Low on energy
But never sleeping
Someone call the cavalry
Sniper peeping
Solitude is a place on earth
And I've got a season ticket
We're splitting off like the A57
Cutting my own through the thicket

Heart like a stone
Messages on my phone
Aftermath.
I don't need you in my life
But I want you tonight
Van Der Graaff

Push Yourself lyrics - The Courteeners

You think that you're so clever
And you think you know it all
You're risk-free, the king of stability
But the doctors predict a fall

You're content, intent, even
Of spending your days with a screen
This is the most predictable waste of life
The nation has ever seen

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
Think of Ziggy, think of all the girls

I'm not flattered, and I'm not surprised
That you roll this way
You stand back, fuck me, you're so on-track
You gobble up the Gospel as they say
"You need to come a little closer"
"No, you're wrong", you need to see the edge of the rails
Get both of your hands up
Locaste the chalkboard
And scrape your nails

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
Think of Ziggy, think of all the girls

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
Think of Ziggy, think of all the girls

You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
This is not the world
You need to push yourself
This is not the world

When You Want Something You Can't Have lyrics - The Courteeners

So I hear your rebuilding your life
Down in Mexico way
To act out your favourite play
With your cat and piano
I always new you could play
I knew you better than your friends
Would suggest
The one who's laid claim to being your best

Well that's always the way
When you want something
That's always the way
When you want something you can't have
When you want something you can't have

You were my favourite one
But I suppose that's
Fallen on deaf ears
Because of the way that it was left
It was in the hands of the gods the sods
There an un ruley mob and on there Cv
They can now write down theft

Something's they are not for the best
And that's always the way
When you want something
That's always the way
When you want something you can't have
That's always the way
When you want something you can't have
When you want something you can't have

I never wanted this to happen this way
When do we ever a little time called never
Retrospect is such a cruel invention
No cruel intentions not a single bad

I never wanted this to happen this way
When do we ever a little time called never
Retrospect is such a cruel invention
No cruel intentions
I want something I can't have

Welcome To The Rave lyrics - The Courteeners

It's always darkest before dawn
They ripped the bloody roof off
Yeah you could say the place was torn
But the city's view is slanted
Do we take our dreams for granted
Are The walls falling all around us
Oh can we be saved

Because I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind and I'm feeling
Like I'm leaving everything behind
The sun is ours to find

So how do you want to live
I've got a pass for aladdin's cave
Are you coming with
I swear you 'll never look back in to the sun
It's good to have you back
Your bones are flying out
Welcome to the rave

And I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind and I'm feeling
Like I'm leaving everything behind
The sun is ours to find

And I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind in behind in behind

Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhh

Because I'm feeling like I'm leaving
Everything behind and I'm feeling
Like I'm leaving everything behind
The sun is ours to find

Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhh

Save Rosemary In Time lyrics - The Courteeners

Tried your luck by the vending machine
You think that they'll never suspect a thing
But I'm smarter than the average bear
And I'll be buying that ring

I'm gonna save Rosemary in time

You've taken her prisoner
But I've got a get out of jail free card
And I'm slipping it to her
Cause if you gimme an inch I'm gonna take a yard

I'm gonna save Rosemary in time

Don't say nothing I will be there any day now

Time is ticking, I don't wanna alarm you
I'll be your knight in shining armour
You gotta get out, I don't wanna alarm you
I'll be your knight in shining armour

I'm gonna save Rosemary in time

Don't say nothing
Don't say one word
Don't say anything at all

Sharks Are Circling lyrics - The Courteeners

The sharks are circling
The water's getting clearer
Smiling with his six rows
The megalodon are nearer
They go out in schools
Dream they are supreme
Cast insults our way, go on
We'll cast you down stream

There's a ghosty tred
Over her overhead

Footsteps in the canyon
Slip away until you've found her
They stop and stare
A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do,
And so the girl cries
But lets crack out the fan fare
In it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes

They crack the whip
The acetone drips from their lip
Tut tut finger wag
It takes ten years to shake a tag
But they wear theirs with pride
A septic thorn in society's side
We will rise above
Through the color of our love

There's a ghosty tred
Over her overhead

Footsteps in the canyon
Slip away until you've found them
They stop and stare
A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do
And so the girl cries
But lets crack out the fan fare
In it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes

They stop and stare
A hundred eyes on you
But don't worry just do
Those things that you do
And so the girl cries
But lets crack out the fan fare
In it for the good times
Dry those dark eyes

Marquee lyrics - The Courteeners

Stay up late and think
Of where you might be
I can't sleep I've got the image of you and him in the marquee
He made you smile when did I stop doing that?
Was it happening for a while?
You should've of just said
Instead I'm lying here wresting demons in my bed
Around and round we go
Demons in my bed

I don't mean to be so rude
But next time you think you might not love someone
Don't you think it's best to tell them earlier on

Was he one of those whom you swore was just a friend
And did he used to send those messages through the night
Your screen would flash and in tone so brash
You'd say it's the time zone
And you're working late you're working too hard
You're working us to the ground
And I don't feel too sound
Is he better pound for pound?
You'll never know

I don't mean to be so rude
But next time you think you might not love someone
Don't you think it's best to tell them earlier on

I don't mean to be so rude
But next time you think you might not love someone
Don't you think it's best to tell them earlier on?

Money lyrics - The Courteeners

I noticed you in the photograph
A ghost like you why don't you laugh?

Five years on and your baby's got the gun
Picking off the memories one by one
Bang bang bang goes the lover's ideal
Bang bang bang

She said
Sit down and shut your mouth
Pack your things and then drive south
Drive south and stay there honey
Keep going in search of the money

How come you're always making fun of them
It's unbecoming and it's cruel

The way they raised you says a lot about who you are
Where you're going and if you've gone too far
A little rain check every now and again
Will do you the world of good
So I'll say it again

Sit down and shut your mouth
Pack your things and then drive south
Drive south and stay there honey
Keep going in search of the money

Here Come The Young Men lyrics - The Courteeners

I'm in work in an hour and a half
And the gin is still fresh on the end of my scarf
How long can we keep up with this?
And if we didn't is there anything that we would miss?

The sun comes up over Raven South
You're a raving, misbehaving mouth
I never thought that we'd like each other
But lo and behold
This love will last forever and ever and ever
Here come the young men

I'll never show my back to the painting
Youth encompassed, ready and straight in
She looks at me like nobody else can
Eye to eye, eye to eye

Are we getting older?
Are we getting wiser?
Or are we getting none of the above?
And does it matter when
This love will last forever and ever and ever
Here come the young men

This love will last forever and ever and ever, and then

And so the party's finished
Serotonin has diminished
The curtains become see through
And there's a Cadbury's flake in the corner
And we'll be doing it all again
Weekend in Burnage was our den
A bond we made together

This love will last forever and ever and ever
Here come the young men.

"Falcon" (2010)

The Opener lyrics - The Courteeners

I've been away I've been working but now I'm back I need to know if you're still there
And I need to know if you still care

Of course you do
Of course you do
You were made for me
And I was made for you

Somethings change but the majority stands still and I need to know if you want to and I need to know if you will

Of course you do
Of course you do
But I was made for this place
And I was made for you

I don't know if you would welcome me back with open arms through the door I don't expect anything more please know that I like you for sure (please be sure)

I miss you eyelashes and the street where I grew tall
I miss getting pissed wet threw getting to yours and getting warm

I miss stopping over and borrowing someone else's clothes so nice to be home you'd never of known that I've even been away

I miss the city I love 'cause I've been having an affair with LA and New York, Dundee, Doncaster if I may dare

Of course I do
Of course I do
But I was meant for this place and
I was meant for you

I miss the city I love but I've been having an affair with LA and New York, Dundee and Doncaster.
If you should care
Of course you do
Of course you do
But I was made for this place
and I was made for you

My heart is here and here to stay
My heart is here and here to stay
[repeat until end]

Take Over The World lyrics - The Courteeners

I looked into her eyes and I swore
I've never written a cliche before
And I'll probably never do so
She was beautiful though

I think it's time for me and you to take over the world
I think it's time for me and you to take over the world

I'm only a paperboy from the North West
But I can scrub up well in my Sunday best
How could I ever do for you?
Because I'm true and I'm real and this is how I feel

I think it's time for me and you to take over the world
I think it's time for me and you to take over the world

A glossy magazine on the coffee table
And you've held court with half of the culprits in
There who seem unstable
But you don't look at them like you do at me

Those eyes are only mine, what a wonderful time
When your eyes are mine, and mine are yours
I turn over in bed and you're not there

Nowhere to be seen
All I can do is flip the Mac and gently touch the screen

I think it's time for me and you to take over the world
I think it's time for me and you to take over the world

Take over the world
Take over the world

Cross My Heart & Hope To Fly lyrics - The Courteeners

How can I create a work of art?
Angled over a dishwasher that just won't start
Domestic bliss are you taking the piss
I need a minute on my own, minute on my own

So I cross my heart and hope to fly
And fuck right off into the middle of the sky
Where no one can find me
And no one can see that would be my ecstasy

Our clothes are on the floor and so are our hearts
Your necklace and your pearls are your entourage
A picture, a locket, a ring in my pocket
I need a minute on my own, minute on my own

So I cross my heart and hope to fly
And fuck right off into the middle of the sky
Where no one can find me
And no one can see that would be my ecstasy

So I cross my heart and hope to fly
And fuck right off into the middle of the sky
Where no one can find me
And no one can see that would be my ecstasy

So I cross my heart and hope to fly
And fuck right off into the middle of the sky
Where no one can find me
And no one can see that would be my ecstasy

So I cross my heart and hope to fly
And fuck right off into the middle of the sky
Where no one can find me
And no one can see that would be my ecstasy

You Overdid It Doll lyrics - The Courteeners

I heard you coming in from town
Stilettos scrape the ground
I saw you in your overcoat
Random on your throat

I know you this is not the girl
That I used to whirl around me
What's happening to you?
What's happening to you?

I love it, I shoot it like a Tommy gun
But you will carry on until the day you are done
You never know when to stop
You'll carry on until you're dead and drop
You will carry on until you're dead and you drop

You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll

You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll

Your teeth are starting to go
Five nights a week is starting to show
Dark rings around your eyes
Are fashionable until somebody dies

This pace a little too fast
You're a space cadet dressed in fiberglass
You're gonna shatter, it's not too late to undo
Put the fiddle down, the taming of the shrew

I love it, I shoot it like a Tommy gun
But you will carry on until the day you are done
You never know when to stop
You'll carry on until you're dead and drop
You will carry on until you're dead and you drop

You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll

You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll

You will never know when to stop
You'll carry on until you're dead and you drop
You will carry on until you're dead and you drop

I love it, I shoot it like a Tommy gun
But you will carry on until the day you are done
But you will carry on until the day you are done

You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll

You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll
You overdid it doll

Lullaby lyrics - The Courteeners

You walked over still hungover from the night before
Those idiot girls were looking over
I don't know what for

That vintage Chanel dress that you wore
Just accentuated the fact that your heart was sore
Like a dying rose in the cold you froze
I'm holding the thorns on the floor

The Night & Day holds memories
But when I think of it now all I see
Is you at the back and you're starting to cry
I wish I could have sung you a lullaby

But I can't because I'm a mess, I'm too proud
I'm stubborn and I'm selfish and you know that I'm loud
I'm a fool who thinks he's strong like Cassius Clay
I never ever listen to what anyone says

If I see your mother, tell her I still love her
But that letter was wrong, ill informed and I warned you
Please do not get the families involved
This world is me around me I revolve

The Night & Day holds memories
But when I think of it now all I see
Is you at the back and you're starting to cry
I wish I could have sung you a lullaby

I'm with my friends, I'm on my own
I'm in a crowded bar, I'm on my own
I'm with everyone else, I'm on my own
Its nobody's fault but my own

I wish I could have sung you a lullaby.

Good Times Are Calling lyrics - The Courteeners

Well I'm in Manchester,
And you're in London town.
I'm having a time of my life,
but I'm dying to go down.

I don't know,
If I should,
Come see you,
For you know that I'm falling.
I'm still young,
I need life,
More than I,
Need a wife.

The good times are calling me,
The good times are calling me,
You can come with me,
You should come with me.
The good times, are calling me.

Do you remember the days,
when you dropped all your weight,
They were the days,
When we stayed up at 3 straight.
All the boys looking sharp,
at the top of the class
All the girls seem bonnie,
their hearts of glass.

I don't know,
If I should,
Come see you,
For you know that I'm falling.
I'm still young,
I need life,
More than I,
Need a wife.

The good times are calling me,
The good times are calling me,
You can come with me,
You should come with me.
The good times, they are calling me.

I don't know,
If I should,
Come see you,
For you know that I'm falling.
I'm still young,
I need life,
More than I,
Need a wife.

The good times are calling me.

The Rest Of The World Has Gone Home lyrics - The Courteeners

Mark was there, he was chasing tail, the urban genie
On the door got offered the manners test and he failed
That girl who said she was your friend but you really hated her was there in her element
As two chunky thick set skinheads gyrated her

I was sulking by the cigarette machine by the back bar
This time you've gone too far
I'll be minding your drink as you go to the RBS Cash machine
Don't sniff keep it clean

What should I do now I am all alone?
The rest of the world has gone home

I tried to paint my feelings through this verse
Just like Neil Young did in the back of his hearse
But you won't hear much of that though in here though
It's full of cheerful chaps who whistle and leer and live on their own

I'll be sulking by the cigarette machine by the back bar
This time you've gone too far
I'll be minding your drink as you go to the RBS Cash machine
Don't sniff, keep it clean

What should I do now I am all alone?
The rest of the world has gone home

The Deansgate fireflies they blink and wink at me
I haven't felt this alone since my art GCSE
And don't bother with the tears tomorrow
You're always doing it, you're always doing it
You're always bloody doing it

I'll be sulking by the cigarette machine by the back bar
This time you've gone too far
I'll be minding your drink as you go to the RBS Cash machine
Don't swear, keep it clean

What should I do now I am all alone?
The rest of the world has gone home
What should I do now I am all alone?
The rest of the world has gone home

Sycophant lyrics - The Courteeners

I'll never dance with a sycohpant
I'd rather entertain disdain
From someone who I love
At least you know where you stand
You'll never understand

Keep your eyes on your own work son
Do your homework son
We will never be undone
We're like a father and a son
We will never be undone

I'll ask you...

Are my clothes alright?
Is my hair alright?
You can say what you want cos it's what we like
We are judged on every single thing we do
We could not care less, cos we are us not you.

You say you're clued up
I think you're glued up
You're seen everywhere in town
But you're never with a friend
You know everybody's name
You're the king of pretend

The proof's in the pudding, and the gigs
You've not even been to Woolworths to buy your mix
You flirt with the weather, a kneeling knave
Billy Shakespeare would be spinning in his grave

Are my clothes alright?
Is my hair alright?
You can say what you want cos it's what we like
We are judged on every single thing we do
I could not give one cos we are us not you.

You say you're clued up
I think you're glued up
You're seen everywhere in town
But you're never with a friend
You know everybody's name
You're the king of pretend

Are my clothes alright?
Is my hair alright?
You can what you want cos it's what we like
We are judged on every single thing we do
We could not care less cos we are us not you

Are my clothes alright?
Is my hair alright?
You can say what you want, thank you and goodnight
We are judged on every single thing we do
We could not care less cos we are us not you

You say you're clued up
I think you're glued up
You're seen everywhere in town
But you're never with a friend
You know everybody's name
You're the king of pretend

You love to dance, you're a sycophant
How do you sleep? how do you get up? Get fucked

Cameo Brooch lyrics - The Courteeners

With your mother's cameo brooch
Sat at the foot of her bed taking notes

You watched her since you were small
You are the new belle of the ball

With your father's bruise on your arm
Telling me it's no cause for alarm
Stop pushing people away
You can't live your life this way

I will always be there for you
Whenever you need me, someone to talk to

With your sister's love for her dad
You tell her it's the piano teacher that has been bad
You said you hadn't learnt your scales
She said you were going off the rails

But that was nothing to what you are now
And I'm not picking holes and I don't want to row

But people are getting scared
We can see your bones, and we were unprepared

I will always be there for you
Whenever you need me, someone to talk to

I will always be there for you
Whenever you need me, someone to talk to

I will always be there for you
Whenever you need me, someone to talk to

Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips lyrics - The Courteeners

Six thousand miles away, the first thing on my mind
I've not been to bed, my thoughts are racing
My heart is lagging behind

Desperate times call for double measures
The drinks ae going down alleviating the pressure
Just to see you for a second now, if only I could
Just to breathe the same air, then you know that I would

A needle in the heart from a silhouette
She could've been you but for the cigarette

When back, will you dig your heels in?
Dig your heels into my back?
Scratch your name upon my lips
Take the belt from off your hips

A needle in the heart from a silhouette
She could've been you but for the cigarette

A needle in the heart from a silhouette
She could've been you but for the cigarette

When will I see you again? When will I see you again?
When will I see you again? When will I see you again?

When will I see you again? When will I see you again?
When will I see you again? When will I see you again?

Scratch your name upon my lips
Scratch your name upon my lips
Scratch your name upon my lips
Scratch your name upon my lips

Last Of The Ladies lyrics - The Courteeners

You are the last of the ladies
You are the only one who can save me
You are, you are, you are

You are the one to grow old with
To live, to laugh, and to lie with
You are, you are, you are

Sometimes I may not see you for a week
Don't think of this as a burden
Just a grander hide and seek
And when you find me I'll be happy to be out
Your words are one thing I can't believe that I've ever lived without

You are the last of the ladies
You are the only one who can save me
You are, you are, you are

You are the one to grow old with
To live, to laugh, and to lie with
You are, you are, you are

If something is easy then it's not worth the reward
Like remembering the list of bands that I wrote on
The chalk board
I'm not saying you're New Order but I think you
Know what I mean
And I'm into the way that you're into me
Like a scene from the silver screen

You are the last of the ladies
You are the one who can save me
You are, you are, you are

Will It Be This Way Forever? lyrics - The Courteeners

A bicycle shop at the end of the road
A Chinese chippy to ease the load
The lights are low, the life's not fair
But what I have is yours to share

Victoria Park, after dark
Kissing on the wall trying not to fall
Into your heart and into your head
Take me somewhere else, take me to your bed

Naive, young and not too clever
Will it be this way forever?
Naive, young and not too clever
Will it be this way forever?
Will it be this way forever?

Like two students in love, waltzing along
I have been both, but not for very long
Like two drunk dancers, juvenile chancers
One sets the other one off

Naive, young and not too clever
Will it be this way forever?
Naive, young and not too clever
Will it be this way forever?
Will it be this way forever?

Angel as you go down, I'll let you know tomorrow
Change your plea to guilty and another day we'll borrow

A bicycle shop at the end of the road
A Chinese chippy to ease the load
The lights are low and life's not fair
But all I have is yours to share

Naive, young and not too clever
Will it be this way forever?
Naive, young and not too clever
Will it be this way forever?
Will it be this way forever?

We don't need money, let's get under the covers
Just as long as we've got each other
We don't need money, let's get under the covers
Just as long as we've got each other

Revolver lyrics - The Courteeners

Will I be graced with your presence tonight?
I'd really rather you just let me know
'Cause I'm stood here like a spare prick at a wedding
I'll get my dignity, smedley, my brogues and I'll go

You could have just stabbed me in the back
There was no need to use the revolver for that
You said you had the knack, what did you mean?
"Has Nobody told you?"
Told me what? no they must have forgot
"He's just a friend", yeah you said it happens all the time
Is that right? in that case everything will be
Just fine

You could have just stabbed me in the back
There was no need to use the revolver for that
You said you had the knack, what did you mean?
"Has Nobody told you?"
Told me what? no they must have forgot
"He's just a friend", yeah you said it happens all the time
Is that right? in that case everything will be
Just fine

Spotted you, fools on a hill,
Thought maybe it's just your cousin.
Even so, please God do not let that be her.
Took one look at your cardigan, your jeans on backwards,
My jaw dropped and I went oh fuck, because I knew that it were.

How would you feel if I had done that to you?
How, how would you feel if I had done that to you?
How, how would you feel if I had done that to you?

You could have just stabbed me in the back
There was no need to use the revolver for that
You said you had the knack, what did you mean?
"Has Nobody told you?"
Told me what? no they must have forgot
"He's just a friend", yeah you said it happens all the time
Is that right? well in that case everything will be
Just fine

Bojangles lyrics - The Courteeners

The Shambles are a shambles, crooks and crafters hanging from the rafters,
With the beat and the bangles oh, Bojangles shirts and shouts them from all the angles.

Masses on mass go past,
head down walk fast,
this is where we live to
let the ladies and children through,

I'm struggling help me along,
hold my arm as I sing my song,
I'm struggling help me along,
hold my arm as I'm singing my song,

Tearing through St Anne's Square,
Policeman down no one cares [X4]

The Shambles are a shambles, crooks and crafters hanging from the rafters,
With the beat and the bangles oh, Bojangles shirts and shouts them from all the angles.

I'm struggling help me along,
hold my arm while I sing my song,
I'm struggling help me along,
hold my arm while I sing my song.

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