Scatterbraine Lyrics - Ed Harcourt

Scatterbraine, they smoked you out of the foxhole 

Scatterbraine, you act like a priest in a brothel 

Naïve charm, the idiot boy from the farm 

Father tried to save you with prayers and psalms 

Grace and Lydia and Dorothy 

The village idiot sent them to sleep 

Policeman O'Riley cannot believe 

That someone so dumb could be still on the run from the law 

Scatterbraine, the strength of an ox on cocaine 

Scatterbraine, are mother and father to blame? 

He's not insane, just a boy who goes searching for treasure 

Sunshine, rain, he'll find it whatever the weather 

Grace and Lydia and Dorothy 

The village idiot sent them to sleep 

Policeman O'Riley cannot believe 

That someone so dumb could be still on the run from the law 

This ain't no fairytale for you to cheer 

Something's ugly in the atmosphere 

And his name is Scatterbraine