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Bright lights big city
burned my baby's eyes
And like a fool I swallowed
my baby's lies
I followed her round like a dog
Et up her lies like a hog
And just as I'm set to explode
she says Daddy don't leave me
Newsman says people like her
are born under a bad sign
They said they found a knife
in my baby's hands
Well I was not there at the time
But agterwards I read the headlines
She looks up at me with those brown eyes
Says Daddy don't leave me
Believe me
I climb to the top of a no-tree hill
Stare hard as I can at the sun
I say why did you have to rise today?
And what did she mean to you anyway?
It will take a strong anaesthetic
to keep her away
Nightly I rinse out my blood
to clean off the mark she made
I'm going back home now
to be of some help, be of some good
For a while then I could have been a goner
I could have been lost for good
Bright Lights! Drink up, it's getting
dimmer now! Bright Lights!
Getting darker now
Bright lights big city
burned my baby's eyes
And like a fool I swallowed
my baby's lies
I followed her round like a lap-dog
Et up her lies like a sap-hog
And just as I'm set to explode
she says Daddy don't leave me
Leave me, don't believe me
Don't leave me
- Album:
- Beautiful Waste And Other Songs
- Born Sandy Devotional
- Miscellaneous
- In The Pines
- Calenture
- Treeless Plain
- The Black Swan
- Come Ride With Me... Wide Open Road
- Grandson of Dungeon Tape
- Jack Brabham 2010 #2
- Australian Melodrama
- Live - Stockholm
- Also Used and Recommended By
- Tales From the Australian Underground: Singles 1976-1989
- Love in Bright Landscapes
- Indie #2: 1981-1987
- Wide Open Road
- Field of Glass
- Trick of the Light
- Goodbye Little Boy