The Road To Mandalay

Album: Sing When You're Winning (2000)
Charted: 1
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  • Save me from drowning in the sea
    Beat me up on the beach
    What a lovely holiday
    There's nothing funny left to say

    This somber song would drain the sun
    But it won't shine until it's sung
    No water running in the stream
    The saddest place we've ever seen

    Everything I touched was golden
    Everything I loved got broken
    On the road to Mandalay
    Every mistake I've ever made
    Has been rehashed and then replayed
    As I got lost along the way

    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Bum ba dum

    There's nothing left for you to give
    The truth is all that you're left with
    Twenty paces then at dawn
    We will die and be reborn

    I like to sleep beneath the trees
    Have the universe at one with me
    Look down the barrel of a gun
    And feel the moon replace the sun

    Everything we've ever stolen
    Has been lost returned or broken
    No more dragons left to slay
    Every mistake I've ever made
    Has been rehashed and then replayed
    As I got lost along the way

    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Bum ba dum

    Bum bum bum ba da dum bum bum
    Ba da da da da dum bum bum
    Ba da da da da dum bum bum
    Bum ba dum

    Save me from drowning in the sea
    Beat me up on the beach
    What a lovely holiday
    There's nothing funny left to say Writer/s: Guy Chambers, Robert Peter Williams
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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