Frank Turner - My Kingdom For A Horse lyrics

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Would you pick your clothes up, put your clothes on, <br />

Pack your things and go?<br />

I'm tired of sinking this low.<br />

Awkward semi-naked coffee conversations fade<br />

Quicker than mistakes that were made.<br />

Mornings when I'm coming down, being driven round the bend, <br />

Make for days when I'm losing my friends<br />

For all the little things that I have done and cannot make amends.<br />

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Don't you ever kind of wish that the world would just stop?<br />

That the band would pack up and the curtain would drop?<br />

I've been stuck inside the same old nights, the same old days off, <br />

And I need you now because I can't get out of this.<br />

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Clean your mirrors, roll your notes out, <br />

Put your cards away.<br />

That's a game that I don't want to play anymore.<br />

My head is sore, my throat is raw, and what's more<br />

I'm fifty pounds down to feel empty and poor, <br />

Remembering the things that I believed when I was sober and sure.<br />

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And I'm trying to speak straight, <br />

But I'm drunk and I'm lonely and you won't believe me, <br />

And I'm trying to see straight, <br />

But I've been up for days and it scares you away, <br />

And I'm trying to keep straight, <br />

But I'd trade it all for just five minutes more<br />

Of your wandering hands with their simple demands that are<br />

All the things I ever wanted, better than the powder and pills, <br />

All the things I ever needed, the only thing that doesn't seem to kill, <br />

That still makes me smile.<br />

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So if I tell you all the little things that I think that I need, <br />

Will you tell me how to tell the world from the woods from the trees?<br />

Because I've been stuck inside my comforting familiar disease, <br />

And I need you now because I can't get out, <br />

And all over Europe the lights are going out, <br />

And I'm pulling down the curtain, but every time I reach out<br />

You're gone.