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Artist: Triffids
Canonical path: /triffids/bright-lights-big-city
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Bright Lights Big City
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Bright Lights Big City
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Bright lights big city
Burned my baby's eyes
And like a fool i swallowed
My baby's lies
I followed her round like a dog
Et up her lies like a hog
And just as i'm set to explode
She says daddy don't leave me
Newsman says people like her
Are born under a bad sign
They said they found a knife
In my baby's hands
Well i was not there at the time
But afterwards i read the headlines
She looks up at me with those brown eyes
Says daddy don't leave me
Believe me
I climb to the top of a no tree hill
Stare hard as i can at the sun
I say why did you have to rise today ?
And what did she mean to you anyway ?
It will take a strong anaesthetic
To keep her away
Nightly i rinse out my blood
To clean off the mark she made
I'm going back home now
To be of some help, be of some good
For a while then i could have been a goner
I could have been lost for good
Bright lights! drink up, it's getting
Dimmer now! bright lights!
Getting darker now
Bright lights big city
Burned my baby's eyes
And like a fool i swallowed
My baby's lies
I followed her round like a lap-dog
Et up her lies like a sap-hog
And just as i'm set to explode
She says daddy don't leave me
Leave me, don't believe me
Don't leave me
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