Mr. Writer

Album: Just Enough Education To Perform (2001)
Charted: 5
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  • You line them up
    Look at your shoes
    You hang names on your wall
    Then you shoot them all

    You fly around in planes
    That bring you down
    To meet me who loves you, like
    Me crashing to the ground

    Are you so lonely?
    Don't even know me
    But you'd like to stone me

    Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
    Why don't you tell it like it really is?
    Before you go on home

    I used to treat you right
    Give you my time
    But when I'd turn my back on you
    Then you do what you do

    You've just enough, in my own view
    Education to perform
    I'd like to shoot you all
    And then you go home
    With you on your own
    What do you really know?

    Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
    Why don't you tell it like it really is?
    Before you go on home

    And then you go home
    With you on your own
    What do you even know?

    Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
    Why don't you tell it like it really is?
    Before you go on home

    Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
    Why don't you tell it like it always is?
    Before you go on home

    Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it really is?
    Why don't you tell it like it always is?
    Before you go on home Writer/s: Kelly Jones, Marshall Ross Bird, Richard Mark Jones, Stuart Cable
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Hannah from Birmingham, EnglandFantastic. Says the feelings of anyone who's ever heard lies and rumours about them
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