Advice From a Roving Artist-The Cribs

[00:00.00]Can't go home right now, and that's the truth [00:28.98]Julie Burchill's drinking free champagne on my roof [00:31.92]The front door's off limits, at least to the likes of me [00:35.43]See right here, right here, this is my story [00:36.87]Slept in a stranger's flat in all my clothes [00:41.25]In the morning [00:48.36]I took a bus across the city to feel safe and closer to home [00:54.39]Passed a sign on the door, and a couple more [00:56.97]Saying welcome to hard times, welcome to hard times [01:02.70]I thought of a friend whose window looks out onto nothing but fields [01:07.59]While outside mine [01:07.92]The book shop was closing down [01:08.52]It's closed now [01:08.82]And it starts to look unlikely [01:16.17]As people leave around me [01:24.18]Helen King wrote a letter to me [01:26.85]Sent May 19th, the day of my birthday [01:30.96]From a desk in a library in some far off country [01:35.16]I'm a roving artist now. [01:36.39]It's alright, it's okay [01:38.79]It said there's no magic left in crystal balls [01:42.75]I'm not sure there ever was at all [01:45.36]But listen, what will happen, the favourite question [01:49.71]Is best left for the last line of the poem [01:52.56]And it starts to look unlikely [02:00.18]As people leave around me [02:39.60]Fashionistas, we don't need you [02:42.75]Fashionistas, we don't need you [02:46.23]Fashionistas, we don't need you [02:49.62]Fashionistas, we don't need you [02:53.13]Fashionistas, we don't need you [02:56.55]Fashionistas, we don't need you [03:00.06]Fashionistas, we don't need you [03:03.30]Fashionistas, we don't need you