Small Axe
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture (youth culture)
Youth culture killed my dog
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think it's fair)
And his suicide can be justified
By the tastemakers, how they cried and cried and so
Bacharach and David used to write his favorite songs
Never, never, never would he worry, he'd just run and fetch the ball
But the night lights and my dog's life aren't exactly one and the same
Youth culture killed my dog
And I don't think it's fair (I don't think i
Why Did We Ever Meet?
Your hair pinned up in circles
Worn like a widow to second the motion of second nature.
Like two rafts knotted and ju- knotted and still where sound is lost and found.
But I fear its all just coming back to me.
And I fear that it’s all just coming back,
It’s all coming back, It’s all coming back to me.
Under that threat of sky we lie together,
Why care about the weather.
It only ends- it ends in darkness.
You, you’re always you’re-
Always dressed and buttoned up.
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba da ba bap.
Do do do do do do do do and you –
You, you’re always you’re-
Always dressed and buttoned up.
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
Do do do do do do do do and you –
And between 19, 19 and 40,
For the tea it will have changed me.
And turning from the invading light on my- my naked room,
My naked room.
Our coffee stains and dusty coughing.
You, you’re always you’re-
Always dressed and buttoned up.
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba da ba bap.
Do do do do do do do do and you –
You, you’re always you’re-
Always dressed and buttoned up.
Ba ba ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
Do do do do do do do do and you –