4 Meanings
Add Yours
Share
Q&A
Charge Lyrics
Ladysmith wants you forthwith to come to her relief
Burn your briefs you leave for France tonight
Carefully cut the straps of the booby-traps
and set the captives free
But don't shoot 'til you see her big blue eyes
Then sound the charge breathe your final breath
and charge into the valley of death
Cannon to the left and cannon to the right
they'll go bang bang bang all night
We'll fight them on the beaches
yes, we'll fill'm full of lead
fighting naked in the open air
We'll fight them in the kitchen, in the bathroom
in the garden shed
fighting the good fight any-fighting-where
So sound the charge breathe your final breath
and charge into the valley of death
Cannon to the left and cannon to the right
They'll go bang bang bang all night
There'll be a cannon to the left and cannon to the right
They'll go bang bang bang bang bang bang bang all night...
Baby baby, I love the way you talk sense to me
especially when you say 'Neil, you got love'
I hear what you're saying
I have in my hand a piece of paper that says
'Let's make lurve, not this phoney war-thang'
We goin' over the top
But you're so sexy when you're angry, honey-chile
Roamin' around in no man's land
gettin' caught in your barbed wire
Baby baby, gonna set your village on fire
CHARGE, I'm gonna hit you where it hurts
CHARGE, so sound the red alert!
There'll be a cannon to the left...and cannon to the right
(The hills are alive with the sound of)
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
All night!
Burn your briefs you leave for France tonight
Carefully cut the straps of the booby-traps
and set the captives free
But don't shoot 'til you see her big blue eyes
and charge into the valley of death
Cannon to the left and cannon to the right
they'll go bang bang bang all night
yes, we'll fill'm full of lead
fighting naked in the open air
We'll fight them in the kitchen, in the bathroom
in the garden shed
fighting the good fight any-fighting-where
and charge into the valley of death
Cannon to the left and cannon to the right
They'll go bang bang bang all night
There'll be a cannon to the left and cannon to the right
They'll go bang bang bang bang bang bang bang all night...
especially when you say 'Neil, you got love'
I hear what you're saying
I have in my hand a piece of paper that says
'Let's make lurve, not this phoney war-thang'
We goin' over the top
But you're so sexy when you're angry, honey-chile
gettin' caught in your barbed wire
Baby baby, gonna set your village on fire
CHARGE, so sound the red alert!
There'll be a cannon to the left...and cannon to the right
(The hills are alive with the sound of)
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG, BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
All night!
Song Info
Submitted by
jon On Jan 22, 2002
More The Divine Comedy
Songs Of Love
National Express
The Frog Princess
The Complete Banker
Count Grassi's Passage Over Piedmont
Stuffed with innuendo, this is about sex without love, and how it often resembles war (I think).
features lyrics from the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd & thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. "
"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "
Am I the only one who hears "CAMDEN on the left, CAMDEN on the right" as in the "alternative" market in London?
yes
yes