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Every Defeat a Divorce (Three Lions)

I am not a crutch

Although my knees are rife with woodworm

And the mealworms I misheard for lunch

Are rotting in my guts

With a childhood of fingernails

That ripped my throat to shreds

A walk that chimes like church bells

From all these loose joints in my legsThese three lions that were sitting on my chest

Are clawing hard into my skin

As I am gasping for my breath

And as they each play noughts and crosses

On the scratches they have left

I have to screw up both my eyes

As it goes into sudden death.

They whisper

"Really all these noughts are circles holed, bereft

And all these crosses crucifixes,

Spreading guilt and sense of dread."

And as we stumbled homeward up the hill

To where you used to live

The cold makes ice upon our cheeks

From all the tears that we have shedThese things rattle round my head

If he hasn't blown the whistle

Then it isn't quite the end.Every defeat a divorce

Although I look surprised

It's par for the course I guess

Every defeat a divorce

Although I look surprised

It's par for the course I guessAnd I don't really know now

What I thought I knew then

You can lead a horse to water

But it won't drown itselfThis one family photograph

Always floats to the top

Like a beaming, bloated corpse

Though having been made up

My memories are sepia

But the photograph is not

An historian is fucking with them

As deadly as garrotteWhere they're standing in the kitchen

With his arms around her waist

With no idea of what's to come

And a smile across your face

And all the fittings are the same

But every other thing has changed

Must forget everything you know

As though your mouth and tongue estranged

Small comforts found in ABBA Gold

And electronic chess

When West Clewes was my Waterloo

My most dramatic test

Now I've been walking down the shortcuts

And the alleys in the dark

Because I'm not scared of the shadows

They're no blacker than my heartThese things rattle round my head

If he hasn't blown the whistle

Then it isn't quite the end.Every defeat a divorce

Although I look surprised

It's par for the course I guess

Every defeat a divorce

Although I look surprised

It's par for the course I guessBut how could I ever refuse

I feel like I lose when I loseAnd I don't really know now

What I thought I knew then

You can lead a horse to water

But it won't drown itself

Songwriters

THOMAS EDWARD BROMLEY, GARETH DAVID PAISEYPublished by

Lyrics © NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP

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