The Libertines - Anthem for Doomed Youth lyrics
The Libertines: Carl Barât & Pete Doherty [London, UK.]
[The Libertines - Anthem for Doomed Youth lyrics]
Here's a story about the rules
Of death or glory
To be learned by heart by all children of men
It's the hour of the morning on
The day after the dawning
When the sun they said would
Never set finally set again
Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first
Led you to the stairwell
Which leads only forever to kingdom come
Rushed along by guiding hands whispers
Of the promised land
They wished you luck and handed you a gun
Life could be so handsome
Life could be so gay we're going nowhere
But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
In the pub that night
Racking out the lines of shite
Putting to right
All of the world's great wrongs
Yes we thought that they were brothers
Then they half-murdered each other
Then they did a karaoke turn
And murdered our best song
Told the governor's wife
About the last night of his life
She turned away in tears called you a liar
Where are all the old dreams now?
The batallions, once so proud
Lost in some old song and
Hanging on the old barbedwire
Life could be so handsome
It's all gonna be okay we're going nowhere
But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Nowhere in the institutions
Did they teach that revolution
Was something that could ever come to pass
Oh we tried one, once before
Was the king's head on the floor
And we got booted out the boozer
Cause someone smashed the glass
Life could be so handsome life could be okay
We're going nowhere
But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Life could be so handsome
It's all gonna be okay we're going nowhere
Cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Nowhere's on our way
Of death or glory
To be learned by heart by all children of men
It's the hour of the morning on
The day after the dawning
When the sun they said would
Never set finally set again
Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first
Led you to the stairwell
Which leads only forever to kingdom come
Rushed along by guiding hands whispers
Of the promised land
They wished you luck and handed you a gun
Life could be so handsome
Life could be so gay we're going nowhere
But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
In the pub that night
Racking out the lines of shite
Putting to right
All of the world's great wrongs
Yes we thought that they were brothers
Then they half-murdered each other
Then they did a karaoke turn
And murdered our best song
Told the governor's wife
About the last night of his life
She turned away in tears called you a liar
Where are all the old dreams now?
The batallions, once so proud
Lost in some old song and
Hanging on the old barbedwire
Life could be so handsome
It's all gonna be okay we're going nowhere
But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Nowhere in the institutions
Did they teach that revolution
Was something that could ever come to pass
Oh we tried one, once before
Was the king's head on the floor
And we got booted out the boozer
Cause someone smashed the glass
Life could be so handsome life could be okay
We're going nowhere
But nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Life could be so handsome
It's all gonna be okay we're going nowhere
Cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way
Nowhere's on our way