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English girls are pretty when they play guitar
Crazy like a day just breaking I ain't sure what for
Ain't got a mother or father or place to fall
She got a brother in the blues,
But he doesn't know the blues at all
You said you didn't love me, it was right on time
I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright
Said you didn't love me, you didn't want a thing
English girls can be so mean
She's got eyes pretty as a pair of jewels
Falling down the Camden
Like a couple drunken criminals
She had a messy bedroom on the edge of town
I had never been good enough
To ever keep around
Said you didn't love me, it was right on time
I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright
Said you didn't love me, didn't mean a thing
English girls can be so mean
But, oh, look at you now
Oh, look at you now
Mmm, best I've ever seen
Just a tall drink of water
Just a pourin' on down the sink
Tall drink of water, she's a Norfolk waterfall
Little daybreaker, she's shooting like a cannon ball
Crazy like a rocket when
You're coming through my radio
Kept me in your bed 'til the wintertime through the fall
Fall time come, and I guess my little bird can sing
Come on Elizabeth, come on Bethany
Come on forever, I'm tired and I want to sleep
My little dove flew, and I'm guessing
She was done with me
Said you didn't love me, it was right on time
I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright
Said you didn't love me
That you didn't want a thing
English girls can be so mean
But oh, look at you now
Oh, look at you now
Mmm, best I've ever seen
Just a tall drink of water
Just a pourin' on down the sink
Kissed me on the lips but my heart just slept it off
Words may move,
But there never movin' fast enough
Celebrate the differences
I celebrate the songs you sing
Just three words, my love
You meant everything
You meant everything
You meant everything
You meant everything
This song is about his relationship with Beth Orton. I just figured it out. She obviously really hurt him. It would suck to be a songwriter yourself and have another songwriter (your x) write a song about you. The lyric that made me understand this was "little daybreaker" the title of her album...and then the obvious "come on Elizabeth" as in Beth and the most obvious... she's English. Ok, I need to get a life, or become a celebrity gossip writer! I'm sure her next album will have an answer to him...or maybe she's just so over it by then!
Yeah, Beth it is. Although the irony being that Norfolk is the flattest county in the entire land, so you will most likely never ever ever find a Norfolk waterfall as it has nowhere to fall.
English girls are alright deep down - funny and messy, but we have stiff upper lips. At least, we're a better chase than Americans and smarter than the Canadians.
Isnt this song called "English Girls Approxamently"? I think it is just talking about feeling almost led on by a girl that he completely fell for and shes just oblivious or indifferent.
What can u say? Ryan Adams is simply an amazing singer/songwriter (especially when he sticks with this sort of genre), and this song is captivating... i just love how he gives abackground to the whole relationship and it's complexities, and has all these descriptive little lines, yet manages to sum it up so perfectly and simply at the end; "just three words my love; you meant everything". Brilliant!
jesus...what a song.
that voice you hear with ryan is marianne faithfull (sp)...
English Girls can be and are mean. I think he wants some hugs but the English girl in question is resistant. I hate that shit.
'Tall drink of water, she's a Norfolk waterfall' - Well Beth is from Norfolk - I've also felt it's about her the first time i listened to it.
"Said you didn't love me, it was right on time I was just about to tell you, but OK, alright"
i hear that... oy.
A little longer than it needs to be, but damn, what a set up for the ending: "just three words my love..."