Album: Dance Fever (2023)
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  • I thought that I was hungry for love
    Maybe I'm just hungry for blood
    Tears from a woman on the shore
    You prairie ghost on a cottage hall
    Oh, the mermaids have sharp teeth
    Razor blades all in your feet

    England is only ever grey or green
    The girls glitter striding glorious and coatless in the rain
    I remember falling through these streets
    Somewhat out of place, if not for the drunkenness
    It makes my chest hurt to think of it
    Not of regret but of missing that

    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion

    It was not all pain and pavement slick with rain
    And shining under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs
    And hugging girls that smelled like Britney Spears and coconuts
    And with your mermaid hair and your teeth so sharp
    You crawled from the sea to break that sailor's heart
    You only get one night up on the shore
    So dance like you've never danced before
    And the dance floor is filling up with blood
    But, oh, Lord, you've never been so in love

    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion

    And the mermaids, they come once a year
    They climb the struts of Brighton Pier
    They come to drink, they come to dance
    To sacrifice a human heart
    And the world is so much wilder than you think
    You haven't seen nothin'
    'Til you've seen an English girl drink

    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion
    Cheerful oblivion Writer/s: David Algernon Bayley, Florence Leontine Mary Welch
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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