Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor (2006) by Richard Thompson (보컬) on maniadb.com

Well, there's a house in an alley
In the squats and low-rise
Of a town with no future
But that's where my future lies

It's a secret, but no secret
It's a rule, but no rule
Where you find the darkest avenue
There you'll find the brightest jewel

Now my name, it is Mulvaney
And I'm known quite famously
People speak my name in whispers
What higher praise can there be

But I'd trade my fine mohair
For tied-dyes and faded jeans
If she wanted me some other way
She's my Cooksferry Queen

She gave me one pill to get bigger
She gave me one pill to get small
I saw snakes dancing all around her feet
And dead men coming through the wall

Well, I'm the prince of this parish
I've been ruthless and I've been mean
But she blew my mind as she opened my eyes
She's my Cooksferry Queen, yeah

Well, she's got every rare perfection
All her looks beyond compare
She's got dresses that seem to float in the wind
Pre-raphaelite curls in her hair

She could get the lame to walking
She could get the blind to see
She could make wine out of Thames river water
She could make a believer out of me

Yes, I'd trade it all tomorrow
All the wicked things I've been
She's my bright jewel of the alley
She's my Cooksferry Queen

Yes, I'd trade it all tomorrow
All the wicked things I've been
She's my bright jewel of the alley
She's my Cooksferry Queen

Oh some girls hold the ace, the deuce, the trey
X-ray the deck to see what's coming
Mary Antoinette she smiled that way
Easy to smile when the luck is running

Like a myth you rode in from the west
From the go you had my button pressed
Did the tea-time of your soul make you long for wilder days?
Did you never let Jack Kerouac wash over you in waves?

Sibella, we don't make sense together
But my heart's with you
Sibella, I found myself
Strange but true, strange but true

Some say you can learn a lot from books
Thrill right to second-hand living
Life is just as deadly as it looks
But fiction is more forgiving

You took chances well within your means
Salon hair and creases in your jeans
All those lonely winters long, did you really think it through?
Did you really ache for me like I really ached for you?

Sibella, we don't make sense together
But my heart's with you
Sibella, I found myself
Strange but true, strange but true

Sibella, we don't make sense together
But my heart's with you
Sibella, I found myself
Strange but true, strange but true
Strange but true, strange but true
Strange but true

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain
Inside the soul lies a man insane
Conceived in anger, addicted to hate
The mutant child of a twisted state

Beware the contradiction
Beneath the crimson void
'Cos in this world of fiction
My jekyll doesn't hide

A killer's smile with a psycho star dream
Behind the mask things aren't what they seem
Unholy soldier, disciple of sin
What kind of mind are you living in?

You're preaching revolution
Don't you mean genocide?
Behind this resolution
My jekyll doesn't hide

Waiting to die for the very first time
All right, that's right
Waiting to die for the very first time
All right, that's right
Waiting to die for the very first time
I don't give a damn, 'cos I think it's my time
Time, my time

The symbiosis of murder and lies
What do I see looking through your disguise?
Fourth Reich dementia subversion ideals
God only knows what your secret conceals

Who'll be the first offender?
Who will be victimized?
In your perverse agenda
My jekyll doesn't hide

Hard on me, hard on me
Why do you grind me small?
Hard on me, hard on me
At every fence I fall

I bite my rage
I stop my breath
I shake my cage
I swim with emptiness

Hard on me, hard on me
Like they were hard on you
Hard on me, hard on me
So I can stumble too

My circuits seize
My senses jam
I don't know who to please
Trapped inside the Wicker Man

You're so hard on me
You're so hard on me
You're so hard on me

Hard on me, hard on me
Why do you grind me small?
Hard on me, hard on me
At every fence I fall

Unzip my heart
Unbraid my veins
Unstitch my wantonness
And loosen up my reins

Before I dare
Go on that hill
In dumb despair
Unfreeze my will

You're so hard on me
You're so hard on me
You're so hard on me
You're so hard on me

I stole your style, hope you don't mind
I must try to be all I can be
It suits me more than it ever suited you
Hope you like the new me

And I stole your laugh so bright and breezy
It stops parties in mid-air
It makes me feel more devil may care
Hope you like the new me
Hope you like the new me

We all need friends to lean on
Any time, any place, anywhere
Feel free to lean on me
But please, don't do it right now
Yes, I'm much too busy right now

And I stole your walk, the one with purpose
It says there is no mountain I can't climb
It fools people all of the time
Hope you like the new me

And I stole your jokes, just the good ones
How the gang all laughed with glee
I also stole the way that you tell them
Hope you like the new me
Hope you like the new me

To steal is to flatter, what a compliment to pay
All those things that I stole from you
Well, I might give them back someday
Yes, I really might someday

And I stole your wife, hope you don't mind
She was looking bored, don't you think?
Soon have her back in the pink
Stop by and see us for tea

And I stole your soul when you weren't looking
I reached inside and cut it free
It suits me more than it's ever suited you
Hope you like the new me
Hope you like the new me