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Bang Goes The Knighthood

Press the doorbell and push the door

Climb the darkened stairwell to the second floor

She'll be waiting for you in her dressing-gown

With the drink she poured you when she heard the sound

Watch the film, eat the food she cooked

Talk of how the film ain't half as good as the book

Kiss her sleepy eyes closed and say "it's time"

To slip beneath the shadows of the bedroom blinds

Well it's always a pleasure and never a chore

But you just don't know whether you're doing it for the right reasons

It's cold for the season down in the street below

Men and women go about their business

Picking up the last few things for Christmas

Trying not to step upon the pigeons

Praying to the gods of their religions

That they might be spared a little longer

That they might become a little stronger

Down in the street below

Everybody's on a secret mission

Everybody's got their own ambitions

They would tell you if they thought you'd listen

They would say how lately they've been wishing

For the chance to meet a handsome stranger

Lead a life of elegance and danger

Down in the street below

Down in the street below

Way up high in a phallic tower

You're swimming in a tiny galaxy of stars

Knocking back mojitos at the cocktail bar

Talking 'bout burritos and conceptual art

Your armchair's round and your glass is square

The clientele's straight out of this month's Vanity Fair

Well look around the place, something's not quite right

Yours is the only face that you don't recognize

Well it's always a pleasure and never a chore

But you just don't know whether you're doing it for the right reasons

It's cold for the season down in the street below

Comments

9 years ago

CallumR56

Very Dickensian. Such a vivid picture. Love it.

9 years ago

Nick Acton

Masterful as always. Hannon gets more ideas both musically and lyrically into a single track than most artists manage in their entire careers. Always a pleasure and never a chore...

10 years ago

saoud allan

Great simple melody with greater musical arrangement. Thanks Neil 

10 years ago

gaby8499

The work of a genius. Enough said.

10 years ago

Tiphaine Le Beux

j'adorrrrre

10 years ago

MrCool Mug

Sounds alot liek Harry Nilsson, very similar, you guys should check him out if you like this "style". Im gonna look more into this.

10 years ago

HouenTouen

I thought that after David Bowie and Lou Reed there would be nothing .. I was wrong! there is and will be... him:-)

10 years ago

Count Grassi

The only great track off a relatively disappointing album. Genius though he remains.

10 years ago

Amansco

Neil what a voice - I particularly love this track - Awesome!!

10 years ago

Seth Hannum

This is almost too beautiful to listen to. England continues to rein as my favorite source of music.

11 years ago

Helen M Sant

Beautiful song - absolute poetry. One of the most intelligently written and thought provoking songs I've heard in a long time...

11 years ago

Alexey cherniak

this album is fucking good

11 years ago

Ailatan Myopic

It's my Christmas song, even if Christmas only gets a mention ;)

11 years ago

aloyvender

Neil's got such a posh voice!!! This is plus to the fact that he's a complete music genious

12 years ago

Calum Maclennan

This is just one marvelous piece of social commentary

12 years ago

lostcause130

i've just noticed a few replys to my comment ref. the 'vv dissapointing album'. well chaps, if having an opinion makes me a 'dick' & a 'gobshite' , what does it say about you? i take it you have an opinion too?? liberation was the first d c album i bought( on release) & have bought every one since..... as i said, i'm a fan & will continue to be. & i stand by my original comment by the way. move on girls & boys........ paece & leov to my dyslxic freind............

12 years ago

Pablo Ferrer

chicken skin. Hannon Craftsman didi it again...

13 years ago

Gemma Lucy

@lostcause130 ive been listning since i was six actually, im eighteen now. i had the privlage of actually chatting to neil hannon and he told me he started the divine comedy when i was four, so i would hardley say an apprentice, but you can take from my spelling & puntuation that im dyslxic, this is youtube, seriousley, does making fun of peoples spellings actually make you feel better than yourself? you can spell... well done, doesnt make you any less of a dick

13 years ago

lostcause130

@smugalemer only 12 years? an apprentice then? i take it by your spelling & punctuation that you're just on the good side of 12 years old?...............

13 years ago

Batman

I HATE musicals, BUT as I listened to this album, I couldn't help but thinking this could be a fantastic musical movie. Similar to Sweeney Todd but much much better.

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