Bad Place for a Good Time-Kate Tempest

[00:00.00]Bad Place For A Good Time -Kate Tempest [00:26.959]Cold white sky like milk this morning [00:29.423]Sirens flash like Christmas lights [00:32.15]Behind every window someone's alive [00:34.495]My eyes are too sore though the days are too bright [00:37.399]The wall is too tall to sit on without swaying [00:39.903]The day is too new to be over for ages [00:42.535]All over this city people are hungry [00:45.80]For things that they don't know the names of [00:47.735]It's all just bricks and lights and bodies [00:50.563]Muscles twitching heads snap back the glitches [00:53.603]All these pretty pictures there must be more to life than pixels [00:58.287]Life has her hands on her pistol [01:01.227]She swears she'll not be ours again [01:03.644]Life will keep her lonely vigil [01:06.332]Slow to start but fast to end with [01:09.420]Sitting and itch our cuts and scratches [01:11.852]Crying in our mothers kitchens [01:14.356]Is this love or death or marriage [01:17.244]Is this life or is life different [01:19.716]Do something please [01:20.907]Scream that you hear me [01:22.316]Let this be more then a feeling I harbour [01:25.28]Let this be ours [01:26.228]Let there be more here [01:27.772]Then wages and page three and waiting for larger [01:30.316]And waiting for trains home [01:31.716]Waiting for trains in [01:32.659]Waiting for life to begin [01:33.946]And then waiting for life to be over [01:36.877]And babies and not saying nothing [01:38.882]Let alone save me to strangers [01:41.477]Bad place for a good time [01:46.868]Good place for a bad time [01:52.28]Bad place for a good time [01:57.252]Good place for a bad time [01:59.772]I can't take the stench any more [02:01.732]Nothing is real [02:03.21]Nothing is trying to even pretend that it is [02:05.457]The adverts are too loud [02:07.600]The whole f**king place is shrouded in mist [02:10.40]A mist we can't see [02:11.112]But it sticks in our throats [02:12.720]When we're out for a couple [02:14.32]We don't want no trouble [02:15.392]But trouble wants us [02:16.624]And we fall in the rubble [02:17.904]And we give it our blood [02:19.305]And go home for a cuddle [02:20.792]And this is enough for you [02:22.39]This is enough [02:23.128]But this is not enough not at all [02:25.785]And this is enough [02:27.65]This is enough [02:28.337]This is not enough not at all [02:31.137]But here is a tree growing steadily steadily [02:33.665]Not being nothing but all that it is [02:36.537]Not even grounded [02:38.57]Holding it's own in the concrete [02:40.01]The rumbling of cars and the dogpiss [02:42.130]It doesn't want anything [02:43.65]It is what it is [02:44.537]And I feed it [02:45.377]I'm dwarfed by it's wisdom [02:46.801]I'm lit by it's colours [02:47.865]I feel every fibre [02:49.145]And this is survival [02:50.425]Be what you are in the mess and the violence [02:53.65]Don't collect rivals [02:54.498]Seek out asylums [02:55.882]Find something sacred in all of this silence [03:03.50]I breath out more comfortable [03:04.809]Hold my waist in [03:06.128]Legs thick as roots as they carry me deeper down [03:08.664]Even when nothing is true and love hates you [03:10.976]There's always some small bit of peace to be found [03:13.776]Even when nothing is true and love hates you [03:16.344]Even when nothing is true and love hates you [03:19.169]Even when nothing is true and love hates you [03:21.808]There's always some small bit of peace to be found [03:25.08]Bad place for a good time [03:30.226]Good place for a bad time [03:35.368]Bad place for a good time [03:40.706]Good place for a bad time [03:43.584]Bad place for a good time [03:48.897]Good place for a bad time [03:53.956]Bad place for a good time [03:59.176]Good place for a bad time