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Anthem For Doomed Youth

The Libertines1 Sep 2015

Anthem For Doomed Youth Lyrics

Anthem For Doomed Youth (青春颂歌) - The Libertines (浪子乐队)

Here's a story about the rules of death or 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 batallions once so proud

 

Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbedwire

 

Life could be so handsome

 

It's all gonna 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

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