The Fall - Carl Barat

Somewhere in the North amid

The drunken hunting ground

Upon a sticky nightclub floor

A wilting rose I found

I snatched her from the clutches

Of an evil smelling bor

I said I think it's over now

She said I'm not so sure

We quickstepped into love

Like Fred and Ginger in a trance

At all the most exclusive

Balls always too drunk to dance

The snakes and devils of our

Past were scrupulously ignored

I said I think it's over now

She said I'm not so sure

The windswept kisses on the dunes

The only ships at sea

Around the cape of vain

Hope the gods smiled on her and me

If you're reading this

You've come too far the sign read on the door

I said I think it's over now

She said I'm not so sure

To save us from ourselves

We turned our fury on each other

She'd crucify my confidence

I'd hog the duvet cover

We'd tighten up the thumbscrews

And still scream out for more

I said I think it's over now

She said I'm not so sure

We followed every line to

Where the end always begins

Presented our credentials

And they gladly let us in

We washed in filthy sin and

We grew rotten to the core

I said I think it's over now

She said I'm not so sure

Our merry dance was over

Every shred of love was gone

Everything that once seemed right

Turned out to be so wrong

I woke up on the sofa

Found her suitcase in the hall

She said I think it's over now

I said nothing at all