Stiff Upper Lip

Album: Straight No Chaser (2009)
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  • Oh, now I'm walking back to our place
    Which is soon to be your place
    Watching my feet, they're as stubborn as concrete
    I'm knee deep in the jumble of our lives
    Throwing shit into bin bags, I reach for the door
    The dog's at my heel, thinks we're going for a walk

    And I realise We never been as fucked as this
    So grown up now we're squabbling like kids
    Your mother's plates, dashed on the floor
    I can't keep a stiff upper lip any more
    We never been as fucked as this

    Out on the street and we're screaming like kids
    The neighbours watch, well let them talk
    I can't keep a stiff upper lip any more

    Leaving, throwing all of the black bags
    In the back of the black cab
    You see I'm not bluffing, no

    I'm actually leaving, and now I'm sleeping
    On the front step of my mate's place
    Cos he stopped there, cos he's shit faced

    And I realise We never been as fucked as this
    So grown up but we're squabbling like kids
    Your mother's plates, dashed on the floor
    I can't keep a stiff upper lip any more
    We never been as fucked as this

    Out on the street and we're screaming like kids
    The neighbours watch, well let them talk
    I can't keep a stiff upper lip any more

    Life's too short to get caught
    Life's too short to get caught
    On the shady side of the street
    Life's too short to get caught Writer/s: BEN HUDSON MCILDOWIE, MARTIN BRAMMER, STEPHEN ROBSON
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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