Johnny Flynn - Drum lyrics

Mr DRUM was here yesterday
He knows just what he needs
And gives what he's got
To the thump of his creed:
"Live fast, die young
Leave a good-looking corpse
Good-looking corpse

In a witch doctor's den, in a shanty shebeen
From the echoes of laughter
I know where he's been
From the liquor you've drunk and
The air that you breathe
Is the tap of his typing
Is the sweat from his sleeve
Live fast, die young
Leave a good-looking corpse
Good-looking corpse

On the corners of streets
Where a dash to the tail
Is provoking a malice as sharp as a nail
And a wit he has slain with
An eye full of ink
Is a stab in the dark and a push to the brink

Oh, DRUM, I was glad, I was glad in your beat
Oh, DRUM
I was moved by your love of your street
Oh, DRUM, I was glad, I was glad in your beat
Oh, DRUM
I was moved by your love of your street

And if you have gone
Then I'll summon you back
With the reach of your spirit past
The white and the black
Tell me please, tell me Henry
Tell me ever and more
Tell your son, tell your daughter
And open the door live fast, die young
Leave a good-looking corpse
Good-looking corpse

I'm a hag and I'm hooked
(Live fast, die young)
I'm down and I'm in (Live fast, die young)
I'm a world without water
(Live dast, die young) i'm fat and I'm thin
(Leave a good-looking corpse)

I'm a story you told (Live fast, die young)
I'm the promise that you sound
(Live fast, die young)
I'm the day without water
(Live fast, die young)
I'm the world that I want
(Leave a good-looking corpse)

Live fast, die young
Leave a good-looking corpse
Good-looking corpse

Oh, DRUM! I was glad, I was glad in your beat
Oh, DRUM! I was moved by
Your love of your street
Oh, DRUM! I was glad, I was glad in your beat
Oh, DRUM! I was moved by
Your love of your street