The Lamy Brothers

Dead Man's Gin

Say it once, say it twice
You know I say it once, I say it twice
Say it once, say it twice
I need dead man's gin

I've never had a woman for more than just one night
Never had a drink that didn't end up in a fight
I guess I've spent all my life
Wandering down just one road
The lonely route to nowhere, or so I've been told

But I get the feeling that things are taking a turn for the worse
I'm spending my life between the wagon and the hearse
But I've got that drink in my hand
And I've got that fire in my gut
But the body on the floor says I'm running out of luck
There's a body on the floor, I think I've run out of luck

God knows where I'm going
God knows where I've been
All I know is I'm sitting drinking a dead man's gin
God knows where I'm going
God knows where I've been
All I know is I'm sitting drinking a dead man's gin
A dead man's gin, alright

(Solo)

So put my corpse in the sun, I want to sweat the goodness right out of me
I'll hang my head like a dog at all the new people that we meet
We've only just begun and I thank you for you sympathy
But baby, baby all I ever need is that dead man's gin inside of me

God knows where I'm going
God knows where I've been
All I know is I'm sitting drinking a dead man's gin
God knows where I'm going
God knows where I've been
All I know is I'm sitting drinking a dead man's gin
A dead man's gin, whoah

Wickedness (Boom Boom)

It only takes a day
To fall in love with this kind of muse
I would leave this old, dirty soul behind
If I could just have one night with you

And I love the wickedness that plays on your lips
And I love the wickedness in the movement of your hips
I love the wickedness in the depths of your eyes
I love the wickedness in you tonight
And my heart goes
Boom boom boom
Shalalalala
Boom boom boom
It goes
Boom boom boom
All night long
Boom boom

All right, yeah

(Solo)

And I love the wickedness that plays on your lips
And I love the wickedness in the movement of your hips
I love the wickedness in the depths of your eyes
I love the wickedness in you tonight
And my heart goes
Boom boom boom
Shalalalala
Boom boom boom
It goes
Boom boom boom
All night long
Boom boom

Once there was a time
When the world seemed behind us
And once there was a time yeah
When our lives seemed behind us
And my heart goes
Boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
My heart it goes boom

Spectre of the Girl Next Door

She looks like the lead in an Eighties movie
That I would watch when I was a boy
I would imagine touching her face
I would imagine touching her body
 
I don't know how old she is even
She could be fifteen, twenty, thirty or more...
 
She's a spectre of the girl next door
She's a spectre of the girl next door 
 
Her black jersey's off of one shoulder
The top of her back is bare
Like some actress whose name I can't remember
She is French you can tell by her hair
 
She gets me so goddamn wistful,
Her eyes could knock me to the floor...
 
She's a spectre of the girl next door
She's a spectre of the girl next door
 
(Solo)

She gets me so goddamn wistful
Her eyes could knock me to the floor...

She's a spectre of the girl next door
She's a spectre of the girl next door

The Legend of Fonzarelli Carr
  
Once upon a time, not long ago
King Kurt playing on the radio
Crazy nights and happy days
Buzzing with the Cramps and strutting with the Strays
And it only cost you seven bucks
For a straight flat-top or Sam's buzzcut
 
He adjusts his coat and he preens his hair
Always asks the girls before he touches them there
He got a Chevy 55 and a cut-throat razor
He gonna be your psychobilly saviour

If you know that boy you know he'll go far
He goes by the name of Fonzarelli Carr
 
(Solo)
 
If you know that boy you'll know he'll go far
He goes by the name of Fonzarelli Carr

She Ain't Lovin' Me

(Written by Dan Addison)
 
Sitting down by my window
In the dead of night
There's another lone church bell chime
The cars are few in my cross road view
And I got red lights in my mind
 
Been sat here a while been just watching
I guess I'll wait to see another day in
But the birds won't fly in this bloated concrete sky
Where the roads groan so they're pretty songs don't mean a thing
 
I'm down on the same ground
With these four words that trouble me
She ain't lovin' me
 
I'm sick of these blues I'm sick of the sight of my shoes
As I drag myself like someone else through these streets
And I'm sick of that dumb white machinery hum tht the kitchen breathes
Sick of these self indulgences
 
I'm down on the same ground
With these four words that trouble me
She ain't lovin' me
 
(Solo)

I need no dignity, need no company, need no sympathy cos she ain't lovin' me, she ain't lovin' me
 
I'm down on the same ground
With these four words that trouble me
She ain't lovin' me

Whisky, Blood and Music

There was a time I was a God-fearing man
But I've lost my faith and I don't understand
My mind has changed, my thoughts reduced
The devil's got me, he's got me seduced

The devil's trident
Whisky, blood and music

I remember the day that I lost my belief
When my Delilah told me she was going to leave
I swigged the bourbon, and I stabbed her dead
And I heard Robert Johnson playing in my head

The devil's trident
Whisky, blood and music

(Solo)

Preacher Man
 
I walk along these narrow streets
Though my feet are raw and bleeding
I wander round from town to town
Still nobody heeds my warning
They call me mad these fools when they look into my eyes
It's only the fire of truth they see, on which damnation lies
I'll tell you this
  
There is an angel that whispers in my ear
She lifts up her wings and shines her light around
Tells me to find strength doing the work of the Lord
Never give up on you sinners, you sinners
 
There is an angel that puts salt into my tears
She makes a bubble at the bottom of the sea
So I can breathe when I'm baptized again
When the seas of gasoline will turn into towers of flame
And all you sinners will finally know his name
All you sinners will finally know your shame
Never give up on you dirty fucking sinners

Midwife Crisis

Like a tea towel of the Pope, she's so kitsch but so devine
Is she mass manufactured? Her nail polish is misaligned
But I kneel at her feet, sitting taking note
Just to sing her praises with my meconium throat

She's my wife, my little midwife wife
She's my little wife
She's my little midwife wife
She's my little wife
She's my wife, my midwife
She's my little wife
She's my little midwife wife
She's my little wife

Smack my naked bottom hard make me gasp for air
Out of the amnio into the bird's nest of her hair

She's my wife, my little midwife wife
She's my little wife
She's my little midwife wife
She's my little wife
She's my wife, my midwife
She's my little wife
She's my little midwife wife
She's my little wife

(Solo)

She's my wife, my little midwife wife
She's my little wife
She's my little midwife wife
She's my little wife
She's my wife, my midwife
She's my little wife
She's my little midwife wife
She's my midwife crisis

Wicked Tongue

Well I thought you'd be my woman
Until the day that we died
I wanted to empower you, wanted to devour you, but you waved me goodbye

You went and you left me
With nothing but a sigh
I wanted to empower you, wanted to deflower you, but you waved me goodbye

And you've got a wicked tongue
All that tongue can do is lie
I wanted to defile you but with some style you just waved me goodbye

And just like those waves rolling on to the shore
I love my baby ever more

(Solo)

Just like those waves rolling on to the shore
I love my baby ever more

Well my heart stopped beating
Well these eyes of mine ceased to cry
I wanted to defile you but with some style you waved me goodbye
I wanted to defile you but with some style you just waved me goodbye