Hammer and Peach - Del Amitri

I don’t remember

How we came together

But never in a month of murders would I have imagined the state we’ve reached

And yet when we came together like a hammer and peach

I don’t remember

How we got surrendered

To somebody’s hand-me-down hatred

That thinks with its feet while its foot’s in the door

And yet when we come together we make such a civil war

You have to be naked to get clean

You have to be wicked to know what wickedness means

You have to be holy to know which way folks lean

And put the madonna and child on a float wearing union jack jeans

I don’t remember

How we crossed the embers

Not by asking the rich and the powerful

How these beggars strike their good will

And yet when we come together they say the saints feel ill

I don’t remember

How they tarred and feathered

The ones with the longest memories along with the ones they forgot to teach

And yet when we came together like a hammer and peach

You have to be naked to get clean

You have to be wicked to know what wickedness means

You have to be holy to know which way folks lean

And put the madonna and child on a float wearing union jack jeans

Union jack jeans

I don’t remember

How we came to be together

But never in a month of murders would i have imagined these states we’ve reached

And yet when we come together, and yet we’ll come together, and yet we’ll come

together together like a hammer and peach

Like a hammer and peach

I don’t remember

Yet we’ll come together (repeat to fade)