Innocents - John Cooper Clarke

I never broke your windows

I never broke your rules

I never took to your tender ventetta

I didn’t touch you family jewels

Revenge is a strong emotion

Friction is the mother of pearl

It’s a disapproving, disappointing, disappearing world

Now what’s this…

I didn’t burn your house down

I didn’t break your hearts

I never tried to steal your car

I wouldn’t know where to start

Don’t blame me if your life’s a bore

Not gonna look at your curves

Don’t point your finger anymore

You’re getting on my nerves

Your tepid shallows of a failing brain…

Innocents

…last of the wholly innocents

Innocents

…last of the wholly innocents

Innocents

…last of the holy in a sense

I never broke your windows

I never broke your rules

I never took to your tender ventetta

Didn’t touch you family jewels

Revenge is a strong emotion

Friction is the mother of pearl

It’s a disapproving, disappointing, disappearing world

Who is if I’m not to blame…

Innocents

…last of the wholly innocents

Innocents

…last of the wholly innocents

Innocents

…last of the holy in a sense

I didn’t run to your rescue

I didn’t hear you scream

Citizen’s arrest

You’ve got to give Joe Public his cream

Murder is a powerful picture

It’s food for the famished mass

But I didn’t do your meter’s

I’d never do things like that

In the who’s who of capital gains…

Innocents

…last of the wholly innocents

Innocents

…last of the wholly innocents

Innocents

…last of the holy in a sense