Johnny Flynn - The Prizefighter and the Heiress lyrics
[Johnny Flynn - The Prizefighter and the Heiress lyrics]
The prizefighter and the heiress
Both talented in their way
Both fighting for inheritance
Both entitled to their day said the fella
"I've thrown my gloves and loosed my shoes
Come join me in the ring, my friend
Quit these lonesome
Blues quit my lonesome blues"
The lady thought the longest while
And bathed the time in light
She came to the conclusion that
He hadn't won the fight
"Put your gloves back on, " she says
"And steady with your pride
You've dealt the eldest hand, my love
But that part of me has died
That part of me has died"
I’m a fortune-telling concubine
I'm a troubleshot saloon
You’re a welterweight companion and you're
Light as a balloon
I’d rather chase my options now and
Place you in the past
The future’s not yet written
Though the die behind me
Is cast the die behind me is cast
I don’t know anything about you, but I’m sure
That the doors of perception are
True in their ways in the face of it all
In the stark-staring face of it
If you ask me where I’m going
I'll tell you where I’ve been
'Cept you don’t remember yesterday
And I don’t remember anything
Journey me west or journey me south
Said, "Please, put me down where my heart
Meets my mouth, meets my mouth"
End of the requiem, end of the fight
End of the struggles at the end of the night
Stop where you laugh and look where you walk
Manage your head as you lighten your talk
Solace made bones and they’re
Chanting for air
Sucking from mead in the coast of Rosslare
Of Rosslare
End of the requiem, end of the fight
End of the struggles at the end of the night
Me and my dream as me and my girl
Have more than a thousand square miles
To twirl the earth loves her children
Look and don’t break your stride
Keep watching forward, girl, and I'll
Watch my pride, watch my pride
Thanks for the dark, thanks for the light
Thanks for my guide at the end of the night
End of the requiem, end of the fight
End of the struggles at the end
At the end, at the end of the night
Both talented in their way
Both fighting for inheritance
Both entitled to their day said the fella
"I've thrown my gloves and loosed my shoes
Come join me in the ring, my friend
Quit these lonesome
Blues quit my lonesome blues"
The lady thought the longest while
And bathed the time in light
She came to the conclusion that
He hadn't won the fight
"Put your gloves back on, " she says
"And steady with your pride
You've dealt the eldest hand, my love
But that part of me has died
That part of me has died"
I’m a fortune-telling concubine
I'm a troubleshot saloon
You’re a welterweight companion and you're
Light as a balloon
I’d rather chase my options now and
Place you in the past
The future’s not yet written
Though the die behind me
Is cast the die behind me is cast
I don’t know anything about you, but I’m sure
That the doors of perception are
True in their ways in the face of it all
In the stark-staring face of it
If you ask me where I’m going
I'll tell you where I’ve been
'Cept you don’t remember yesterday
And I don’t remember anything
Journey me west or journey me south
Said, "Please, put me down where my heart
Meets my mouth, meets my mouth"
End of the requiem, end of the fight
End of the struggles at the end of the night
Stop where you laugh and look where you walk
Manage your head as you lighten your talk
Solace made bones and they’re
Chanting for air
Sucking from mead in the coast of Rosslare
Of Rosslare
End of the requiem, end of the fight
End of the struggles at the end of the night
Me and my dream as me and my girl
Have more than a thousand square miles
To twirl the earth loves her children
Look and don’t break your stride
Keep watching forward, girl, and I'll
Watch my pride, watch my pride
Thanks for the dark, thanks for the light
Thanks for my guide at the end of the night
End of the requiem, end of the fight
End of the struggles at the end
At the end, at the end of the night