Marshall Law

Song Marshall Law
Artist Kate Tempest
Album Everybody Down

Lyrics

[00:00.000] Everywhere is monsters.
[00:01.450] Tits out, wet-mouthed, heads back.
[00:03.570] Shouting and screaming just to prove they exist.
[00:06.000]
[00:06.670] Becky’s at the bar with the usual mix
[00:08.970] Of decadent fabrics and desolate lighting.
[00:12.340] Everybody here has got a hyphenated second name.
[00:15.270] Blowing more breeze
[00:16.340] Than the wind at the weather vane.
[00:17.870]
[00:18.390] Industry slimeballs, showbiz big-deals.
[00:20.960] The cool new band with the retro feel,
[00:23.280] It’s the wrap party for their video.
[00:25.390] Becky danced in it.
[00:26.560] The director, Marshall Law,
[00:28.080] Head to toe in yellow velour,
[00:29.790] Is holding court about the science of image
[00:32.080] While the sycophants giggle and grimace.
[00:34.120] Becky fidgets, tells herself,
[00:36.100] ‘Must stop being so cynical,
[00:38.140] Everybody here is a human,
[00:40.390] Even these pitiful posturing pop stars and idiots.’
[00:43.850] She tells herself to look again -
[00:45.700] Nothing is hideous.
[00:46.530]
[00:46.950] So while Marshall Law is wanking on about his artwork
[00:49.610] She smiles at the guy opposite,
[00:51.270] Bright eyes, dark shirt.
[00:52.500] He raises his eyebrows in the direction of Marshall.
[00:55.510] ‘My name’s Becky,’ she says,
[00:57.610] ‘What’s yours?’
[00:58.440]
[00:58.720] She was like nothing that he’d seen before.
[01:01.000] Strong body, soft edges, with something so raw
[01:03.920] In the core of her iris.
[01:05.210] He said his name, ‘Harry’.
[01:06.950] And never in his life had he felt so happy.
[01:09.680] They got talking,
[01:10.950] Free bar. Exhausting decorum
[01:12.760] He drank until she was so absorbing
[01:14.810] He blanked out the party.
[01:16.220] The floor spun, he stared at her face and felt sure,
[01:19.040] Something was happening here.
[01:21.210]
[01:21.600] He was kinda nervous,
[01:22.700] His eyes kept doing circuits of the room.
[01:24.490] He drank as fast as they could serve him,
[01:26.500] Then this dude comes over,
[01:27.820] Sticks out a thick hand,
[01:29.500] And Harry looks at her
[01:30.770] Like he’s just found himself in quicksand.
[01:32.760] He gives this guy a wrap, they shake hands
[01:34.950] Sweaty cash passed between palms,
[01:36.870] No fuss. Bish bash, yes, bosh.
[01:39.160] He looked at her guiltily,
[01:40.510] She waved it off, smiling
[01:42.120] ‘You a shotter then, right?
[01:43.380] I don’t care.’
[01:44.290]
[01:44.570] ‘Becky, all I ever wanted was a place of my own.’
[01:47.070] His eyes, wide and trusting,
[01:48.570] He’s staring at her, desperate for something to click.
[01:51.320] He is opening up. This is it.
[01:53.450] ‘A real classy place, the whole bit,
[01:55.490] Like a speakeasy, right?
[01:57.120] Chandeliers and lights
[01:58.380] That shine off of the glasses
[02:00.020] No hype, and no arseholes.
[02:01.580] Instead of rotting our guts out
[02:03.070] In shitty old boozers
[02:04.590] We can be grown men, listening to music,
[02:07.070] Real music. Played with heart by real bands,
[02:09.990] Not just posers looking like they’re
[02:11.580] Giving blowjobs to mic stands.
[02:13.750] And I’ll be in a waistcoat, dead grand.
[02:16.110] Harry’s Place.
[02:17.260] Or, at least, that’s the plan.’
[02:18.970]
[02:19.140] She was half listening,
[02:20.410] Half not listening.
[02:21.550] Kept getting distracted by the lights flickering.
[02:24.420] He looks like an outline that needs filling in.
[02:27.290] He leans in close, starts whispering:
[02:29.470]
[02:30.410] ‘The thing is, and it’s weird,
[02:31.830] I never felt so able,
[02:33.140] To talk like this to anybody, ever,
[02:36.080] Recently Becky, I’ve been really feeling the pressure.
[02:38.660] I can’t tell you how good it is
[02:39.990] To get this off my chest.’
[02:41.540]
[02:42.080] Becky’s holding tight to her glass.
[02:43.980] Good coke, brain fast.
[02:45.330] She watches his face as he talks.
[02:47.240] Little bump on her fingertips
[02:49.110] Expert. Quick snort.
[02:50.560] Sucking on a cigarette, feeling vaguely bored.
[02:53.250]
[02:53.690] It’s true if you believe it.
[02:56.240] The world is the world
[02:57.460] But it’s all how you see it.
[02:59.590] One man’s flash of lightning ripping through the air
[03:02.280] Is another’s passing glare, hardly there.
[03:05.210] It’s true if you believe it.
[03:07.080] The world is the world
[03:08.930] But it’s all how you see it.
[03:11.040] One man’s flash of lightning ripping through the air
[03:13.780] Is another’s passing glare, hardly there.
[03:15.420]
[03:17.430] ‘If I’m being honest, well it is,
[03:19.050] It’s like a trap,
[03:20.100] I ain’t trying to be flash
[03:21.280] I just need to raise the cash for the dream.
[03:22.410] I hardly touch it myself
[03:24.300] Look, it ain’t that
[03:25.430] But once I set myself a task,
[03:26.800] Well, there ain’t no going back.
[03:28.210] And I am halfway there,
[03:29.670] I am, nearly, anyway,
[03:31.440] The point is,
[03:32.640] I kinda had to push all of my friends away.
[03:34.000] I can’t have nobody
[03:35.750] Knowing what I’m up to
[03:37.010] I keep it very secret but the thing is
[03:39.180] I would love to,
[03:40.320] Just for one day,
[03:41.320] You know, live like any other guy.
[03:43.030] I can’t have a girlfriend, you see
[03:44.700] ‘Cause I don’t like to lie.
[03:45.960] It’s safer all round
[03:46.940] That I just keep my head down.
[03:48.190] And, yeah, the business is booming,
[03:49.690] Yeah, the business is really booming.
[03:51.370] But my family think I work in recruitment
[03:53.820] So, I get up every morning
[03:55.620] And I put a shirt and suit on
[03:57.280] And I get on a train, I go up town.
[03:59.150] It’s all professional users.
[04:00.970] I sell in the boardrooms and not the boozers
[04:02.980] To, like, CEOs and these modern day Scrooges
[04:05.930] Who get their secretaries to bring me coffee,
[04:08.350] It’s so stupid.
[04:09.120] Meant to be hard times, right, a recession?
[04:11.460] But these guys are buying more than ever, I reckon
[04:14.680] And I…
[04:15.240]
[04:15.740] He’s got nice eyes,
[04:16.400] Shame about his issues, though.
[04:17.470] The party pushes on, her cynicism’s getting vicious,
[04:20.090] Show nothing,
[04:20.860] Keep smiling.
[04:21.720]
[04:21.940] She catches the eye of her mates,
[04:23.320] They’re dancing by the bar
[04:24.860] They’re in a state.
[04:25.820] Nod for ‘save me’
[04:26.780] They understand, dance over,
[04:28.690] Put their arms around her shoulders -
[04:30.200] ‘Becky, we’re bored, let’s go’.
[04:32.300] His mouth slows to a stop,
[04:33.700] He seems to lose his composure,
[04:35.000] She smiles at him
[04:36.150] ‘Yeah, was nice getting to know ya.’
[04:37.420]
[04:37.820] No, not like that, don’t leave.
[04:39.740] Please.
[04:41.470] Don’t make her go, we’ve just got started.
[04:43.990]
[04:44.430] Their teeth are bare, their feet are planted
[04:46.130] Their smirking at him like he’s dirt,
[04:47.900] And now his heart is
[04:48.930] Damp with the fury of
[04:50.710] Finding and losing
[04:52.090] This miracle girl.
[04:53.200] He feels weak with confusion, like
[04:55.200] What had he said?
[04:56.370] How long had he talked?
[04:57.930] He watches them walk to the doors
[04:59.460] His blood roars.
[05:00.560]
[05:00.840] In the back of the cab, the girls sit there giggling.
[05:03.470] The driver lets them smoke out of the window
[05:05.370] So they’re shivering.
[05:06.450] They pass a bottle of wine back and forth
[05:08.430] Let it clash against their teeth.
[05:10.030] The cab moves fast through the streets.
[05:11.810] ‘Who was that guy you was with?’
[05:14.340] Becky shakes her head softly,
[05:15.890] ‘Him? I don’t know, probably alright,
[05:18.090] But I could tell he was one of them “save me” types,
[05:20.700] And I couldn’t be dealing with that.
[05:22.450] Not tonight.’
[05:23.870]

Pinyin

[00:00.000] Everywhere is monsters.
[00:01.450] Tits out, wetmouthed, heads back.
[00:03.570] Shouting and screaming just to prove they exist.
[00:06.000]
[00:06.670] Becky' s at the bar with the usual mix
[00:08.970] Of decadent fabrics and desolate lighting.
[00:12.340] Everybody here has got a hyphenated second name.
[00:15.270] Blowing more breeze
[00:16.340] Than the wind at the weather vane.
[00:17.870]
[00:18.390] Industry slimeballs, showbiz bigdeals.
[00:20.960] The cool new band with the retro feel,
[00:23.280] It' s the wrap party for their video.
[00:25.390] Becky danced in it.
[00:26.560] The director, Marshall Law,
[00:28.080] Head to toe in yellow velour,
[00:29.790] Is holding court about the science of image
[00:32.080] While the sycophants giggle and grimace.
[00:34.120] Becky fidgets, tells herself,
[00:36.100] ' Must stop being so cynical,
[00:38.140] Everybody here is a human,
[00:40.390] Even these pitiful posturing pop stars and idiots.'
[00:43.850] She tells herself to look again
[00:45.700] Nothing is hideous.
[00:46.530]
[00:46.950] So while Marshall Law is wanking on about his artwork
[00:49.610] She smiles at the guy opposite,
[00:51.270] Bright eyes, dark shirt.
[00:52.500] He raises his eyebrows in the direction of Marshall.
[00:55.510] ' My name' s Becky,' she says,
[00:57.610] ' What' s yours?'
[00:58.440]
[00:58.720] She was like nothing that he' d seen before.
[01:01.000] Strong body, soft edges, with something so raw
[01:03.920] In the core of her iris.
[01:05.210] He said his name, ' Harry'.
[01:06.950] And never in his life had he felt so happy.
[01:09.680] They got talking,
[01:10.950] Free bar. Exhausting decorum
[01:12.760] He drank until she was so absorbing
[01:14.810] He blanked out the party.
[01:16.220] The floor spun, he stared at her face and felt sure,
[01:19.040] Something was happening here.
[01:21.210]
[01:21.600] He was kinda nervous,
[01:22.700] His eyes kept doing circuits of the room.
[01:24.490] He drank as fast as they could serve him,
[01:26.500] Then this dude comes over,
[01:27.820] Sticks out a thick hand,
[01:29.500] And Harry looks at her
[01:30.770] Like he' s just found himself in quicksand.
[01:32.760] He gives this guy a wrap, they shake hands
[01:34.950] Sweaty cash passed between palms,
[01:36.870] No fuss. Bish bash, yes, bosh.
[01:39.160] He looked at her guiltily,
[01:40.510] She waved it off, smiling
[01:42.120] ' You a shotter then, right?
[01:43.380] I don' t care.'
[01:44.290]
[01:44.570] ' Becky, all I ever wanted was a place of my own.'
[01:47.070] His eyes, wide and trusting,
[01:48.570] He' s staring at her, desperate for something to click.
[01:51.320] He is opening up. This is it.
[01:53.450] ' A real classy place, the whole bit,
[01:55.490] Like a speakeasy, right?
[01:57.120] Chandeliers and lights
[01:58.380] That shine off of the glasses
[02:00.020] No hype, and no arseholes.
[02:01.580] Instead of rotting our guts out
[02:03.070] In shitty old boozers
[02:04.590] We can be grown men, listening to music,
[02:07.070] Real music. Played with heart by real bands,
[02:09.990] Not just posers looking like they' re
[02:11.580] Giving blowjobs to mic stands.
[02:13.750] And I' ll be in a waistcoat, dead grand.
[02:16.110] Harry' s Place.
[02:17.260] Or, at least, that' s the plan.'
[02:18.970]
[02:19.140] She was half listening,
[02:20.410] Half not listening.
[02:21.550] Kept getting distracted by the lights flickering.
[02:24.420] He looks like an outline that needs filling in.
[02:27.290] He leans in close, starts whispering:
[02:29.470]
[02:30.410] ' The thing is, and it' s weird,
[02:31.830] I never felt so able,
[02:33.140] To talk like this to anybody, ever,
[02:36.080] Recently Becky, I' ve been really feeling the pressure.
[02:38.660] I can' t tell you how good it is
[02:39.990] To get this off my chest.'
[02:41.540]
[02:42.080] Becky' s holding tight to her glass.
[02:43.980] Good coke, brain fast.
[02:45.330] She watches his face as he talks.
[02:47.240] Little bump on her fingertips
[02:49.110] Expert. Quick snort.
[02:50.560] Sucking on a cigarette, feeling vaguely bored.
[02:53.250]
[02:53.690] It' s true if you believe it.
[02:56.240] The world is the world
[02:57.460] But it' s all how you see it.
[02:59.590] One man' s flash of lightning ripping through the air
[03:02.280] Is another' s passing glare, hardly there.
[03:05.210] It' s true if you believe it.
[03:07.080] The world is the world
[03:08.930] But it' s all how you see it.
[03:11.040] One man' s flash of lightning ripping through the air
[03:13.780] Is another' s passing glare, hardly there.
[03:15.420]
[03:17.430] ' If I' m being honest, well it is,
[03:19.050] It' s like a trap,
[03:20.100] I ain' t trying to be flash
[03:21.280] I just need to raise the cash for the dream.
[03:22.410] I hardly touch it myself
[03:24.300] Look, it ain' t that
[03:25.430] But once I set myself a task,
[03:26.800] Well, there ain' t no going back.
[03:28.210] And I am halfway there,
[03:29.670] I am, nearly, anyway,
[03:31.440] The point is,
[03:32.640] I kinda had to push all of my friends away.
[03:34.000] I can' t have nobody
[03:35.750] Knowing what I' m up to
[03:37.010] I keep it very secret but the thing is
[03:39.180] I would love to,
[03:40.320] Just for one day,
[03:41.320] You know, live like any other guy.
[03:43.030] I can' t have a girlfriend, you see
[03:44.700] ' Cause I don' t like to lie.
[03:45.960] It' s safer all round
[03:46.940] That I just keep my head down.
[03:48.190] And, yeah, the business is booming,
[03:49.690] Yeah, the business is really booming.
[03:51.370] But my family think I work in recruitment
[03:53.820] So, I get up every morning
[03:55.620] And I put a shirt and suit on
[03:57.280] And I get on a train, I go up town.
[03:59.150] It' s all professional users.
[04:00.970] I sell in the boardrooms and not the boozers
[04:02.980] To, like, CEOs and these modern day Scrooges
[04:05.930] Who get their secretaries to bring me coffee,
[04:08.350] It' s so stupid.
[04:09.120] Meant to be hard times, right, a recession?
[04:11.460] But these guys are buying more than ever, I reckon
[04:14.680] And I
[04:15.240]
[04:15.740] He' s got nice eyes,
[04:16.400] Shame about his issues, though.
[04:17.470] The party pushes on, her cynicism' s getting vicious,
[04:20.090] Show nothing,
[04:20.860] Keep smiling.
[04:21.720]
[04:21.940] She catches the eye of her mates,
[04:23.320] They' re dancing by the bar
[04:24.860] They' re in a state.
[04:25.820] Nod for ' save me'
[04:26.780] They understand, dance over,
[04:28.690] Put their arms around her shoulders
[04:30.200] ' Becky, we' re bored, let' s go'.
[04:32.300] His mouth slows to a stop,
[04:33.700] He seems to lose his composure,
[04:35.000] She smiles at him
[04:36.150] ' Yeah, was nice getting to know ya.'
[04:37.420]
[04:37.820] No, not like that, don' t leave.
[04:39.740] Please.
[04:41.470] Don' t make her go, we' ve just got started.
[04:43.990]
[04:44.430] Their teeth are bare, their feet are planted
[04:46.130] Their smirking at him like he' s dirt,
[04:47.900] And now his heart is
[04:48.930] Damp with the fury of
[04:50.710] Finding and losing
[04:52.090] This miracle girl.
[04:53.200] He feels weak with confusion, like
[04:55.200] What had he said?
[04:56.370] How long had he talked?
[04:57.930] He watches them walk to the doors
[04:59.460] His blood roars.
[05:00.560]
[05:00.840] In the back of the cab, the girls sit there giggling.
[05:03.470] The driver lets them smoke out of the window
[05:05.370] So they' re shivering.
[05:06.450] They pass a bottle of wine back and forth
[05:08.430] Let it clash against their teeth.
[05:10.030] The cab moves fast through the streets.
[05:11.810] ' Who was that guy you was with?'
[05:14.340] Becky shakes her head softly,
[05:15.890] ' Him? I don' t know, probably alright,
[05:18.090] But I could tell he was one of them " save me" types,
[05:20.700] And I couldn' t be dealing with that.
[05:22.450] Not tonight.'
[05:23.870]