Anthem for Doomed Youth

Album: Anthems for Doomed Youth (2015)
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  • Here's a story about the rules of death and glory
    To be learned by heart by all children of men
    It's the hour of the morning on the day after the dawning
    When the sun they said would never set finally set again
    Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first led you to the stairwell
    Which leads only forever to kingdom come
    Rushed alone by guiding hands
    Whispers of the promised land
    They wished you luck and handed you a gun

    Life could be so handsome
    Life could be so gay
    We're going nowhere
    But nowhere, nowhere's on our way

    In the pub that night racking out the lines of shite
    Putting to right all of the world's great wrongs
    Yes we thought that they were brothers
    Then they half-murdered each other
    Then they did a karaoke turn and murdered our best song
    Told the governor's wife about the last night of his life
    She turned away in tears called you a liar
    Where are all the old dreams now?
    The batallion, once so proud
    Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbedwire

    Life could be so handsome
    It's so good to be okay
    We're going nowhere
    But nowhere, nowhere's on our way

    Nowhere in the institutions
    Did they teach that revolution
    Was something that could ever come to pass
    Oh we tried one, once before
    Was the king's head on the floor
    And we got booted out the boozer
    'Cause someone smashed the glass

    Life could be so handsome
    Life could be okay
    We're going nowhere
    But nowhere, nowhere's on our way

    Life could be so handsome
    It's all gonna be okay
    We're going nowhere
    'Cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way
    Nowhere's on our way Writer/s: CARL BARAT, GARY POWELL, JOHN HASSALL, PETER DOHERTY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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