Givin' Up

Album: Permission To Land (2003)
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  • My mamma wants to know where I'm spending all my dough
    Honey, all she does is nag, nag, nag
    But I won't apologise, I'd inject into my eyes
    If there was nowhere else to stick my skag

    All I want is brown and I'm going into town
    Shooting up as soon as I'm back
    My friends have got some good shit, all I want is some of it
    Gimme, gimme, gimme that smack

    Well, I've ruined nearly all of my veins
    Sticking that fucking shit into my arms
    Yeah, yeah

    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck

    Getting off my face, there's a dragon I must chase
    Honey, I'm the scourge of all mankind
    And everyone but me is destined just to be
    Slaves to the remorseless grind

    But I found myself an easy way out
    Sticking that fucking shit into my arms, into my arms

    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck

    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck

    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Givin' up, givin' up, givin' a fuck Writer/s: DANIEL FRANCIS HAWKINS, EDWIN JAMES GRAHAM, FRANCIS GILLES POULLAIN-PATTERSON, JUSTIN DAVID HAWKINS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Danny H from The MoonIn the same way that The Beatles don't actually live in a Yellow Submarine, Justin Hawkins did not have a heroin problem when he wrote this song.
  • Hypa from Earthso this song is basically about him taking heroin?
  • That Hippie Kid from La La, Lai think the part "getting off my face, theres a dragon i must chase" is mabey where southpark got the idea for heroin heros in the episode, Guitar queer O's.
  • James from Durham, EnglandIn relation to the ''Song Fact''
    It's not about Justin's Heroin problem
    It's about the general Heroin problem in their hometown of Lowestoft

    ...and I know talks in the first person in the song, but it's just song writing

    Justin had a Cocaine Problem, but that was after Permission to Land, which ''Givin' Up'' was on, was released

    Also...Skag is just Heroin, not a Heroin needle
  • Cindy from Pittsburgh, PaI was glad to read that Justin cleaned up his act. What I don't understand is why he thinks he has to quit The Darkness and go solo. The band didn't have a drug problem--Justin did! Stay in The Darkness, Justin, and share the stress with 3 other people that you trust and care about!
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