by Arab Strap on album Week Never Starts Round Here

So that was the first big weekend of the summer Starts Thursday as usual with the canteen quiz And again no one wins the big cash prize Later I do my sound bloke routine By approaching Gina's new boy

by Arab Strap on album Miscellaneous

So I hear he likes to cook you dinner Then you can both just sit and talk Are you in it 'cause he's got his own smart place Or are you just in it for the cock? I still miss you Does he know just whe

by Arab Strap on album Elephant Shoe

When we were last here, we named our offspring No we never even done it, we never really did anything We shared a birthday so we shared ado And they kept my clothes when I was upstairs with you I di

by Arab Strap on album Miscellaneous

How am I supposed to walk you home When you're at least fifty feet ahead? 'Cause you walked off in a huff And I'm that pissed, I can't remember what it was I said And I don't doubt you wouldn't touch

by Arab Strap on album The Red Thread

We slept in this morning and she had to get ready in a hurry No time for her usual attention to detail And she ran out the door Slamming it behind her Leaving her keys swinging and jangling I stayed

by Arab Strap on album The Red Thread

If I could always be eighteen You could always be eight We'd draw monsters on your walls I'll keep you up too late 'Cause gettin' served in pubs It's not always cracked up to be I dreamt you were wee

by Arab Strap on album Miscellaneous

And I'd serenade you every night But you'd never be home to hear it I wrote your name with fireworks in the sky But you never turned up to see it So let me take you out and buy you drinks And I can m

by Arab Strap on album The Last Romance

Where the words were once sweethearts Now they're ugly violent thugs How did our language come to this? We speak in grunts and sighs and shrugs When we never let used to let Just one spare mome

by Arab Strap on album The Red Thread

We met on mutual ground But you avoided my gaze Until I lost your face In the next morning's haze You're shoes could've woken up the whole street They drowned out the birds, screaming in the trees We

by Arab Strap on album Philophobia

I said with me around she'd never come to harm And then she took a fork and stabbed herself in the arm She used to wank me off but I could never heat her up And she use to tell all her friends that I

by Arab Strap on album Miscellaneous

Lost on Christmas eve, eve He threw something down my neck I didn't check what it was When he says "Trust me," I never need to check Then he helped me up and the next thing I know We were lying naked

by Arab Strap on album Mad For Sadness

It was the biggest ever cock you'd ever seen But you've no idea where that cock has been You said you were careful you never were with me I heard you did it four times and Jonnies Come in packs of thr

by Arab Strap on album Philophobia

We were lying in bed, staring at the moon And I was wondering if I was supposed to be in love But we couldn't quite decide if the moon was full But I thought, well, tonight it's full enough And this

by Arab Strap on album Week Never Starts Round Here

I take in the smoke from the barbecue I swallow my own cheap booze I try not to look at your legs As little boys play in big girl's shoes I play their games and take them walks I make jokes about fee

by Arab Strap on album Elephant Shoe

We're barely halfway there You're stretched out and clamped around me I don't think there's drink at home You make a little snore and shift Just keep your head down there, you sleep I'll give directi

by Arab Strap on album Elephant Shoe

I see cherubs swarm arounds the bed And swoopin' down to kiss your head Only when you're wrecked do you agree With all my plans for you and me The walls breathe, we're locked in tight It's a lovely e

by Arab Strap on album The Last Romance

Burn these sheets that we've just fucked in My weekend beacon, I've been sucked in Just one more time and then you'll get tucked in I think you may still be my best Come with me 'cause I need a thril

by Arab Strap on album Mad For Sadness

How am I supposed to walk you home When you're at least fifty feet ahead? 'Cause you walked off in a huff And I'm that pissed I can't remember What it was I said And I don't doubt you wouldn't touch

by Arab Strap on album Mad For Sadness

I pulled the ex last night And it felt weird to feel her up again Knickers down and bra cast As if the past had not passed And she bought the drinks all night That's okay, now she's got a job Her gen

by Arab Strap on album Elephant Shoe

It doesn't matter how hard you try to deny Oh I can see clearly with my drinkin' eye You know I never stop 'til I see you cry Make you insist through snot and tears that you'd never lie Now my Friday