Anthem For Doomed Youth Lyrics - Anthems For Doomed Youth - Libertines

[Verse 1] 

Here's a story about the rules of death or glory 

To be learned by heart by all children of men 

It's the hour of the morning on the day after the dawning 

When the sun they said would never set finally set again 

Was it Cromwell or Orwell who first led you to the stairwell 

Which leads only forever to kingdom come 

Rushed alone by guiding hands whispers of the promised land 

They wished you luck and handed you a gun 

[Chorus] 

Life could be so handsome 

Life could be so gay 

We're going nowhere 

But nowhere, nowhere's on our way 

[Verse 2] 

In the pub that night 

Racking out the lines of shite 

Putting to right 

All of the world's great wrongs 

Yes we thought that they were brothers 

Then they half-murdered each other 

Then they did a karaoke turn 

And murdered our best song 

Told the governor's wife 

About the last night of his life 

She turned away in tears 

Called you a liar 

Where are all the old dreams now? 

The batallions, once so proud 

Lost in some old song and hanging on the old barbedwire 

[Chorus] 

Life could be so handsome 

It's all gonna be okay 

We're going nowhere 

But nowhere, nowhere's on our way 

[Verse 3] 

Nowhere in the institutions 

Did they teach that revolution 

Was something that could ever come to pass 

Oh we tried one, once before 

Was the king's head on the floor 

And we got booted out the boozer 

Cause someone smashed the glass 

[Chorus] 

Life could be so handsome 

Life could be okay 

We're going nowhere 

But nowhere, nowhere's on our way 

Life could be so handsome 

It's all gonna be okay 

We're going nowhere 

Cause nowhere, nowhere's on our way 

Nowhere's on our way