I could have put my head in a bucket full of porridge and moaned about the hospital parking scheme.
I would have saved £14, that I just splashed out on your second album.

Cause thats what its akin to, and further more...

You've got a shit arm, and that's a bad tattoo (x 2)

If your going to quote from the Book of Revelation, don't go calling it the book of revelations,
theres no 's', it's the Book of Revelation as revealed by St John the Divine.
See also Mary Hopkin, she must despair

You've got a shit arm, and that's a bad tatoo (x 2)

Advent in the high street, I point and sing...

Busk when it's Christmas,
You only busk when it's Christmas

You've got a shit arm, and thats a bad tattoo (x 2)

Shit arm, bad tattoo ( x 7)

Well you got a shit arm... and that's a bad tattoo


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    come on, its blatanly about this libertines. i'd guess the "you only busk when its christmas" comes from a few years back when the libertines busked in the underground just before christmas, largely for the entertainment of a "just passing" nme journalist

    zertrudetrouton April 25, 2007   Link

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