Ballad Of A Landlord - Terry Hall

on the day you arrived

the bedroom curtains were drawn

all was still

the way you left it same number on the door

easy come, easy go what a way to treat your soul

though i confess

where once hearts rested

now there’s nothing

but a hole

so the prodigal son returns

i guess the pleasure’s not enough

did he promise you the earth

a world of beauty an the bluff

i tried to tend the garden

until the flowers fell to weed

so now the place lies in a ruin

the way you lied and ruined me do i have the answer

if i did i wouldn’t know

so take it if you want it if you don’t

then let me go fake leopard skin fur says it all

you never could be real

how i long to taste the secrets

from your lands of phoney tears

you tried to be a movement

but there was no one on your side

did you come back here to haunt me or take me for a ride

take yourself away

i’ve been here once before

and i can’t have you hurting me anymore