You're My Waterloo

Gypsy Lane is a railway station in middlesborough, but it's open-air (i think) and just kind of basic and mediocre, so maybe he's saying you're my waterloo as in the station, so you're a good/the best part of me and i'll be your worst feature or downfall or whatever.

Stanley Park is a park in Liverpool that's known for being the land between Everton and Liverpool football clubs, who are well known rivals. So maybe it means you're my defeat/battle and I'll be your no mans land or I'll seperate you from who your fighting from.

Calvary is the name given to the place where Christ was meant to have been crucified. So, you're my only defeat and you'll die because of me or I'll be the place you go when everyone has turned against you. Calvary can also mean 'skull', coming from the Latin 'calvarie'. Maybe pete's trying to say i'll be your skull, I'll protect you or hold you together.

Only guesses :) Such a beautiful song though <3

"You'll never fumigate the demons No matter how much you smoke"

Wonderfully articulate. I'd agree with majormajor and say that, especially considering that line, this song is definitely focused on Carl. Which just makes the 'lover' lyric all the more interesting, eh?

"Why does everyone see Peter and Carl in every single song?"

Well, considering Can't Stand Me Now & Likely Lads, it's not surprising, really, is it? And there's a lot of quite-ambiguous references in these that could be about Pete & Carl, like the "fairytale up on the fifth floor" in Anything But Love, or the knife thing in this. shrugs

I love the way Pete and Carlos always make it sound like they are lovers. It ust shows how much they really mean to each other.

"Carlos - he has an affinity with knives"

gosh its wierd but weneva i heard it i was never all sure it was the libs... it does seem to be about carl.. but i dont get the knife thing, cos i can only see 1 reference to knifes..unless im missing something?? and how is carl obssessed with them? whats the link with them??!

Waterloo is actually more commonly used as a synonym of defeat rather than victory, as it was at Waterloo Napoleon got beaten - Which would mean "You're my waterloo" would rather mean "You're my only defeat". He's saying that, maybe because Carlos really got close to Pete then really hurt him - Pete doesn't normally let people get close enough to him, because then he can not be hurt. So maybe, he means that Carl and the things he did, was Pete's only defeat. The first time he let someone in, was the first time he got hurt, therefor he will forever have problems doing it again - just as Napoleons confidence was reduced after the battle at Waterloo.

And as for Carl and Pete having a sexual relationship has been denied by both parts - If you say you don't trust their words, then you can't trust the songs and it all will mean nothing at all to you.

I'm so glad we know just what to do And exactly who's to blame

In Russia we have a saying that there are two major questions in russian literature: what to do and who's to blame. It comes from the titles of two social-psychological novels written in 19 century (What is to be done? by Chernyshevsky and Who is to blame? by Herzen). The former was considered as a handbook of radicalism and led to a creation of Land and Liberty society.

its a tribute for Amy Winehouse and a referencers to club 27.

Most heartfelt, heartbreaking Libertines song I think. But my opinion of Libs' songs changes daily haha.