Wendy James - Basement Kiss lyrics

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Lucy Grace can't show her face<br />

down in the North End Road<br />

For in Belgravia<br />

Rumours have been whispered<br />

and suggestions have been made<br />

Did you sell your friends out<br />

when the heat got too intense?<br />

You say you like the danger<br />

but it's only a pretence<br />

You say you need the money<br />

When everybody knows you can<br />

always fall back on your inheritance<br />

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Did you bruise your arms on those false alarms?<br />

Did you bruise your pride on his smile so wide?<br />

Only fingertips from forbidden bliss<br />

Did you bruise your lips in this basement kiss?<br />

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Who's that sneaking round the door?<br />

You can't come here no more<br />

Can't you go home again?<br />

She used to sit alone for hours<br />

Spend her evenings watering dried flowers<br />

<br />

When her mother came to stay<br />

and finally went to bed<br />

Lucy Grace was in the front room<br />

shooting through your head<br />

She tried to take your breath away<br />

and give you something else instead<br />

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Next year she'll serve her function<br />

in that Audrey Hepburn hat<br />

It still won't serve her much<br />

but she'll get over that<br />

She'll be pale and feign indifference<br />

as they're handing out the prizes<br />

Spilling Daddy's pearls of wisdom<br />

And her ugly sister's tranquilizers<br />

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Why were you so tardy putting up your guard?<br />

When you hurt so easily and you try so hard<br />

Did you bruise your arms on those false alarms?<br />

Did you bruise your pride on his face so snide?<br />

Only fingertips from forbidden bliss<br />

Did you bruise your lips in this basement kiss?