Shadowboxing Lyrics - Ed Harcourt

Hanging off the bridge by a fingernail 

Trapped in the harbour when the ship set sail 

Boy you're one card short of the pack 

Begging for your baby to take you back 

Stubbed a cigarette out on his hand 

Scrawls her name across the sand 

But it disappears like King Canute 

The tide didn't like his attitude 

Always shadowboxing 

Face up and throw your gloves in 

Lose your imaginary friends 

Always good for nothing 

She can't ever love him 

No man is ever innocent 

Bouncing off the walls with no wish to land 

Erase your fingerprints and your retina scan 

'Cause there's no point in the life that he should lead 

Chain his leg to a piano and sink through the weeds 

Gone are all the dreams that last forever 

He towed the line when never meant never 

They had something better than the cynical beast 

Weren't sucked in by the popular disease 

Always shadowboxing 

Face up and throw your gloves in 

Lose your imaginary friends 

Always good for nothing 

She can't ever love him 

No man is ever innocent