its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Soak me to my skin
Will you drown me in your sea
Submission ends and I begin
Choke me smoke the air
In this citrus sucking sunshine
I don't care you're not all there
Every backbone and heart you break
Will still come back for more
Submission ends it all
Here he come
Got no question got no love
I'm throwing stones at you man
I want you black and blue and
I'm gonna make you bleed
Gonna bring you down to your knees
Bye bye badman
Ooh bye bye
Choke me smoke the air
In this citrus sucking sunshine
I don't care you're not all there
You've been bought and paid
You're a whore and a slave
Your dark star holy shrine
Come taste the end you're mine
Here he come
Got no question got no love
I'm throwing stones at you man
I want you black and blue and
I'm gonna make you bleed
Gonna bring you down to your knees
Bye bye badman
Ooh bye bye
I've got bad intention
I intend to
Knock you down
These stones I throw
Oh these french kisses
Are the only way I've found
I've got bad intention
I intend to knock you down
These stones I throw
Oh these french kisses
Are the only way I've found
Will you drown me in your sea
Submission ends and I begin
Choke me smoke the air
In this citrus sucking sunshine
I don't care you're not all there
Every backbone and heart you break
Will still come back for more
Submission ends it all
Here he come
Got no question got no love
I'm throwing stones at you man
I want you black and blue and
I'm gonna make you bleed
Gonna bring you down to your knees
Bye bye badman
Ooh bye bye
Choke me smoke the air
In this citrus sucking sunshine
I don't care you're not all there
You've been bought and paid
You're a whore and a slave
Your dark star holy shrine
Come taste the end you're mine
Here he come
Got no question got no love
I'm throwing stones at you man
I want you black and blue and
I'm gonna make you bleed
Gonna bring you down to your knees
Bye bye badman
Ooh bye bye
I've got bad intention
I intend to
Knock you down
These stones I throw
Oh these french kisses
Are the only way I've found
I've got bad intention
I intend to knock you down
These stones I throw
Oh these french kisses
Are the only way I've found
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Bye Bye Badman Lyrics as written by John Squire Ian George Brown
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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