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I Love You (But You're Green) Lyrics

I was a troubled teen
Who put an advert in a magazine
To the annoyance of my imaginary lover
She questioned my integrity and this is what she said to me...

She said, 'Oh, you, you're green
You don't know what love means
Oh let me tell you'
Said, 'It tickles you pink oh yeah
But it likes to hear you scream'
Fire and damnation, lamentations
For the likes of you.

When she goes
Just let her go
If she says she's going
Just make sure she goes
Make sure she goes.

I was a troubled teen
Untroubled only in my daydreams
To the annoyance of somebody or other
Well they doubted my philosophy and this is what they said to me...

'Now you, you tee me up where you belong
But it's only blood from broken hearts
That writes the words to every song'
Oh a beatific smile for, for worthy servants
Oh but only I, only I, only I...

I can see the serpent
Oh you, you're green
You don't know what love means
Well let me tell you
It tickles you pink oh yeah
But it likes to hear you scream
Fire and damnation, lamentations
For the likes of you.

When she goes
Just let her go
If she says she's going
Just make sure she goes
Make sure she goes.

When she goes
You just let her go
If she says she's going
Just make sure she goes
Make sure she goes.
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Cover art for I Love You (But You're Green) lyrics by Peter Doherty

Surely the best Doherty song yet to be officially realeased at all! This man continues to write quality songs where everything around him seems to fail i mean "it's only blood from broken hearts that writes the words to every song". Pete, Love.

Cover art for I Love You (But You're Green) lyrics by Peter Doherty

Excellent song :o) thats my 2 censt worth

Cover art for I Love You (But You're Green) lyrics by Peter Doherty

is it jst me or is there a pete version and a shambles version?

Cover art for I Love You (But You're Green) lyrics by Peter Doherty

Quite possibly his best work so far in my opinion.

Cover art for I Love You (But You're Green) lyrics by Peter Doherty

"She said, 'Oh, you, you're green You don't know what love means'" Green as in new. He is new to love and she is going to show him and eventually break his heart. "When she goes Just let her go If she says she's going Just make sure she goes Make sure she goes."

*they got to verses backwards.

 
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