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For the Girl

by The Fratellis

on Costello Music (2007)

Well she said I know, but I just can't tell
Everything that you've just been saying
Lucy was there as well in the dark
When the kids in the band were playing

No one can hear a word or tell
What the girl was singing
See, she must've been 16 or 18
I'm just past caring

She was into the Stones when
I was into the Roses
She was breaking my bones when
I was busting their noses

She would tell me a secret
I would lose it the next day
Young love pleases you easy
Makes you sick in a bad way

And all the while the girls sang
La la la la and she sang
Kickings for my sweetheart
Bruises that I just don't miss
And she said "I can't love you any more than this!"

She said, she said, oh no no no no
Then I get a yes why don't you kill me
I said when I'm messed up like this
Sweetheart you know that don't thrill me

Said I would've been there
If only I had been a little bit nicer
I was dead by Sunday
Half past skint just trying to please her

She was getting me pills when
I was into her best friend
She was chasing the thrills
And living down at the West End

She was pretty in braces
I lived under her window
She said, "Take me to London"
Tell me something I don't know

And all the while the girls sang
La la la la she sang
Kickings for my sweetheart
Bruises that I just don't miss
And she said, "I can't love you any more than this"

She was into the Stones when
I was into the Roses
She was breaking my bones when
I was busting their noses

She would tell me a secret
I would lose it the next day
Young love pleases you easy
Makes you sick in a bad way

And all the while the girls sang
La la la la she sang
Kickings for my sweetheart
Bruises that I just don't miss

And she said, "I don't like you
You can't stand me
I can't love you anymore than this"