The Angel Islington

Album: Positive Songs For Negative People (2015)
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  • By the waters of the Thames
    I resolve to start again
    To wash my feet and cleanse my sins
    To lose my cobwebs on the wind
    To fix the parts of me I broke
    To speak out loud the things I know
    I haven't been myself

    Wandering Rosebery Avenue
    I could only think of you
    Facing Samuel Johnson down
    ? wear down London Town
    A glance to take my breath away
    And drag me south from Holloway
    You and no one else

    And the king of a kingdom of mistakes
    I've broken all the things that I could break
    Fuck the fishing, I will abdicate
    And meet you on the corner of the upper street and the city road
    And you, of course, the Angel Islington
    Ah, come on, a boy could hope

    By the waters of the Thames
    I resolve to start again Writer/s: FRANK TURNER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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