The Stranglers : Coup de Grace

Punk-Rock / Royaume-Uni
(1998 - )
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God Is Good
God is good- God is good- God is good
God is good- God is good- God is good
God is good- God is good- God is good
God is good and he will always provide
There’s no place for the infidel to hide

God is good- God is good- God is good

This was my land, now it’s yours
But when we’re gone, it will always be gone

God is good- God is good- God is good

Slit the throat of the infidel
Kill the children so they never will tell

God is good- God is good- God is good
God is good- God is good- God is good
God is good- God is good- God is good

2. You Dont Think That What You’ve Done Is Wrong

You don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
No, you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
I used to look up to you, we used to be friends
I used to laugh with you, but now the story ends

‘cos you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
No, you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong

I even lied for you, but now you want a divorce
The friends betrayed by you, but no sign of remorse

‘cos you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
No, you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong

I was taught loyalty to my friends
Through thick and thin right to the end
In stormy weather yeah, when times get better yeah yeah

You don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
No, you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
‘cos you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong
No, you don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong

You just don’t think that what you’ve done
You don’t think that what you’ve done
You don’t think that what you’ve done is wrong

3. Tonight

Tonight let’s drink enough
To se the god and laugh
Let’s get shit faced and talk rubbish
Let’s get drunk and silly
Tonight we’re gonna understand
Those tricks the gods they play on man
Let’s fix those problems between religions
And between fathers and their sons

For tonight we’re gonna get lost
For tonight we’re gonna get lost

I used to dream a lot
Stay up all night and smoking pot
But now life is serious business
I have a family and a mistress

So tonight we’re gonna get lost
So tonight we’re gonna get lost

Lost in each other’s bodies
Lost in each other’s sorrow
Maybe there’ll be no tomorrow
Who cares

Tonight let’s drink enough
To se the god and laugh
Let’s get shit faced and talk rubbish
Let’s get drunk and silly

For tonight we’re gonna get lost
For tonight we’re gonna get lost
So tonight we’re gonna get lost
Tonight

4. Jump Over My Shadow

I saw a woman with a monkey on her back now
I saw the flunkey’s suffering on the road
Let’s all pray to the virgin of hysteria
Let’s all pretend to be quite sincere
Our lives will never be the same now
Too much money says look the other way
And if you manage to return somehow

I promise I will change
Please don’t go away, again

I jump over my shadow, to reach out to you again
I jump over my shadow, will you take me back again
I jump over my shadow, I jump over my shadow
I jump over my shadow, I jump over my shadow

Big eyes on little kids with big ideas yeah
They’re wanting everything that they can see
No need to work and bust your guts now
Just take what you want from you and me

We want some instant deification
Too much faith says look the other way
And if we don’t get gratification
Will we ever change, would we ever say, again

I jump over my shadow, to reach out to you again
I jump over my shadow, will you take me back again
I jump over my shadow, I jump over my shadow
I jump over my shadow, I jump over my shadow

5. Miss You

Your making plans to miss to morning train
You want all the world to feel your pain
Tearing at the rules to ease your mind
Sometimes days are dull without this light
You see me staring down the wishing well
Drowning in the stories kissed and fell
Burning through the daze across the night
Summer days are dull without this light

I won’t miss you, down where all the souls are broken
I won’t miss you, drowned where all the eyes are soaking
I won’t miss you, not gonna miss you
Not gonna miss you, I won’t miss you
How I miss you

Standing in the shadow of your ties
Said you’d rather lived before it died
Now the days had lost their sweet caress
Decide it was right to taste the rest

You said we really had to freeze the frame
We’ll meet another time the perfect plane
But stars really don’t mean that much to me
Without their light there’s nothing left to see

I won’t miss you, down where all the hearts are choking
I won’t miss you, drowned in all the stolen moments
I won’t miss you, not gonna miss you
Not gonna miss you, I won’t miss you
How I miss you
Maybe I lost, maybe I’m lost, break me tied knot
Maybe I’m lost, maybe I’m lost, maybe I’m not

6. Coup de Grace (S-O-S)

Hey babe take a chance on me
I’ll be your man tonight
Just tell me when you’ve had enough
Then I’ll apply the coup de grace
If I were to live forever
I’d hope you’d apply the coup de grace

Hey babe take a chance with me
I’ll take you down the river tonight
A full moon with a big wolf too
The end won’t be a pretty sight

And then we seeking something
We need the coup de grace

O lord I’m on my knees, save our holes
Or it’s the coup de grace, save our holes

Hey babe I’m a bum tonight
I need somewhere to sleep
I’ll love you now and I’ll love you then
But in the morning you will weep

7. In The End

And if you could see your hand
That would help you understand
All the things that we endured
To be here right now
On the way I lost some dreams
Shattered other people’s too
Those remaining are my friends
And they light a trail to you

And if you could plainly see
What was occurring round the bend
Would it really change what happens in the end

Once I loved a woman so
I asked her to be my wife
Now that love is indifferent
For those years did I waste my life

If we saw what was to be
Would we just avoid the debris
We’re here to make our own mistakes
And for that we’ve got to be free

And if you could plainly see
What was occurring round the bend
Would it really change what happens in the end

Am I too philosophical
Should I look into a crystal ball
Am I being too quizzical
Or should I trust in fate

And if you could see your hand
That would help you understand
All the things that we endured
To be here right now
And if you could plainly see
What was occurring round the bend
Would it really change what happens in the end

Would it really change what happens in the end

8. No Reason

She gave no reason
I’ll just follow he sun
She gave no reason
I’ll be back when I return
And with reason
We might have still been friends today
If not this season
Then on judgement day, on judgement day

I was imperfect with it
Seen through perfect eyes
Please now lie down beside me
In the morning I will rise

And with reason
We might have still been friends today
If not this season
Then on judgement day, on judgement day

No reason strong enough
To keep her waiting here
All reasons disappeared a long time ago
No reason like she’d had enough
Now I’m swimming in my beer
All reason disappeared a long time ago
All reason disappeared a long time ago

9. Known Only Unto God

Here there lies
Under southern skies
A young man loved by someone
Known unto God
Here there died
Under foreign skies
A young man loved by someone
Known unto God

Long to remain underground
The boy who lost his name
Weeping mother is homeward bound
She failed to find his grave

I can hear the wind and sea
Forever they will be here to guard our sons

Here there lies
Under southern skies
A young man loved by someone
Known unto God

Here there died
Under foreign skies
A young man loved by someone
Known unto God

Long to remain underground
The girl who lost her love
She will never hear the sound
Of the boy who won’t return

I can hear the wind and sea
Forever they will be here to guard our sons

Known only unto God

10. The Light

Predestination, not a thing that you’d plan
Misunderstanding, or a line in the sand
Thunder & lightning, did God have a hand
Wasn’t it frightening, wasn’t it sad
Would it have mattered, it the timing was bad
Something surprising, or nothing so sad
A night at the Wiskey, or was I just mad
Was it intended, why was I so glad
Was it so lovely, did it seem real
Was there a purpose, I just can’t tell you

It was always darkness, time was never on your side
That’s the rock of ages, and I could tell you why
I’d talk about the daytime, and tell you ’bout the night
You’ll have to live in darkness to get some piece of mind
Don’t try to make the darkness bright, night will always dim the light

Something is a happening, nothing ain’t right
I’ve been a waiting, a waiting all night
Is it on purpose, who know if you might
I’m biting my nails, right through to the bone
I seem to be dripping my blood on the phone

It was always darkness, time was never on your side
That’s the rock of ages, and I could tell you why
I’d talk about the daytime, and tell you ’bout the night
You’ll have to live in darkness to get some piece of mind
Don’t try to make the darkness bright, night will always dim the light

If I could tell you I might as well
If it was heard, the honest word
But you should know, like no one knows
The words, just can’t be heard

Now it don’t matter, it’s too late to care
It’s something you’d saviour, leave up in the air
You can’t criticise it, it wouldn’t be fair
You couldn’t do that, you’d be such a bore
It’s only the thinking, that altered the score

It was always darkness, time was never on your side
That’s the rock of ages, and I could tell you why
I’d talk about the daytime, and tell you ’bout the night
You’ll have to live in darkness to get some piece of mind
Don’t try to make the darkness bright, night will always dim the light

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