Anthem For Doomed Youth

Song Anthem For Doomed Youth
Artist The Libertines
Album Anthems for Doomed Youth (Deluxe)

Lyrics

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[00:19.86] Here's a story about the rules of death and glory
[00:23.61] To be learned by heart by all children of men
[00:28.28] It's the hour of the morning on the day after the dawning
[00:33.16] When the sun they said would never set finally set again
[00:37.87] Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first led you to the stairwell
[00:42.81] Which leads only forever to kingdom come
[00:47.12] Rushed alone by guiding hands
[00:49.79] whispers of the promised land
[00:52.27] They wished you luck and handed you a gun
[00:55.78]
[00:58.15] Life could be so handsome
[01:03.19] Life could be so gay
[01:08.26] We're going nowhere
[01:11.29] But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
[01:18.90]
[01:21.13] In the pub that night racking out the lines of shite
[01:25.91] Putting to right all of the world's great wrongs
[01:29.83] Yes we thought that they were brothers
[01:32.49] Then they half-murdered each other
[01:34.91] Then they did a karaoke turn and murdered our best song
[01:40.07] Told the governor's wife about the last night of his life
[01:44.48] She turned away in tears called you a liar
[01:49.03] Where are all the old dreams now?
[01:51.50] The batallion, once so proud
[01:54.31] Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbedwire
[01:58.88]
[01:59.52] Life could be so handsome
[02:04.76] It's so good to be okay
[02:09.84] We're going nowhere
[02:13.17] But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
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[02:46.12] Nowhere in the institutions
[02:48.45] Did they teach that revolution
[02:51.21] Was something that could ever come to pass
[02:55.65] Oh we tried one, once before
[02:58.07] Was the king's head on the floor
[03:00.46] And we got booted out the boozer
[03:02.88] Cause someone smashed the glass
[03:05.55]
[03:06.84] Life could be so handsome
[03:11.26] Life could be okay
[03:16.28] We're going nowhere
[03:19.88] But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
[03:27.52]
[03:30.49] Life could be so handsome
[03:35.13] It's all gonna be okay
[03:40.00] We're going nowhere
[03:43.39] Cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way
[03:52.07] Nowhere's on our way
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