Mermaids And Slaves - Paul Heaton

Baby, let’s drink and drive

Baby, let’s drink and drive

Drink til the conversation turns pink

And drive to the other side

Baby, let’s look and learn

Baby, let’s look and learn

Look till a certain feeling takes hook

And learn when the retinas burn

Let’s fool and coerce at the singer of verse

Died of insufferable pain

Let’s fuel the dream;

every Buckley or Dean

Was genius, misjudged or insane

Let’s drive over cliff

That maybe or if

That maybe or if that’s cursed us

The whole of our days

Let’s put out to sea

Poor you and poor me

Poor you and poor me on the rocks

That crushed mermaids and slaves

Baby, let’s duck and dive

Baby, let’s duck and dive

Duck till a major change in our luck

Dive if we wanna survive

Baby, let’s hit and run

Baby, let’s hit and run

Hit till you see the split of that lip

Run like the wind to the sun

Let’s wrap up that notion and sell it as potion

That greed is a good way to die

Take tragic mistake and crash into lake

And sell it to folk passing by

Let’s drive over cliff

That maybe or if

That maybe or if that’s cursed us

The whole of our days

Let’s put out to sea

Poor you and poor me

Poor you and poor me on the rocks

That crushed mermaids and slaves

Let’s drive over cliff

That maybe or if

That maybe or if that’s cursed us

The whole of our days

Let’s put out to sea

Poor you and poor me

Poor you and poor me on the rocks

That crushed mermaids and slaves