The Last Living Rose

Album: Let England Shake (2011)
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  • Goddamn Europeans!
    Take me back to beautiful England
    And the grey, damp filthiness of ages
    And battered books and
    Fog rolling down behind the mountains
    On the graveyards, and dead sea-captains

    Let me walk through the stinking alleys
    To the music of drunken beatings
    Past the Thames River, glistening like gold
    Hastily sold for nothing

    Let me watch night fall on the river
    The moon rise up and turn to silver
    The sky move
    The ocean shimmer
    The hedge shake
    The last living rose, quiver

    Ah ah ah ah
    Ah ah ah ah Writer/s: Polly Harvey
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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