Ballad Of A Landlord

Ballad of a Landlord - Terry Hall

On the day you arrived

The bedroom curtains were drawn

All was still

The way you left it

Same number on the door

Easy come easy go

What a way to treat your soul

Though I confess

Where once hearts rested

Now there's nothing

But a hole

So the prodigal returns

I guess the pleasure's not enough

Did he promise you the earth

A world of beauty an the bluff

I tried to tend the garden

Until the flowers fell to weed

So now the place lies in a ruin

The way you lied and ruined me

Do I have the answer

If I did I wouldn't know

So take it if you want it

If you don't

Then let me go

Fake leopard skin fur says it all

You never could be real

How I long to taste the secrets

From your lands of phoney tears

You tried to be a movement

But there was no one on your side

Did you come back here to haunt me

Or to take me for a ride

Do I have the answer

If I did I wouldn't know

So take it if you want it

If you don't

Then let it go

But if you don't

Just let me know

If you don't

Take yourself away

I've been here once before

And I can't have you hurting me anymore

Do I have the answer

If I did I wouldn't know

Take it if you want it

If you don't then let it go

But don't make me the one

Who makes you feel like you should go

Just take it if you want it

If you don't then let it go

If you don't

Just let me know

I can't take it anymore