Mamba Lyrics - Marc Almond

And tonight the look that branded me 

Was like a pool of burnt out gasoline 

Shiny brown skin like the melting tar 

On a sticky summer road 

Finger on the trigger 

Words like bullets blast the brain 

Nails a brittle edge of a breaking glass in a bar room brawl 

Lay myself like a big jack rat 

Limp and lazy on the sallow soaked floor 

And now you're feeling sorry 

Now I'm shattered sad and worn out 

Ragged raped of mind and soul 

Empty like an ashtray 

Damp and dirty grime and grease 

A broken hearted effigy 

A bone cracked cranium face frozen about you 

The cheap wine that you drown the million little devils in your brain 

Stained your mouth and leaves a purple trail down heartache lane 

To slash my sickly senses leaving me in my own hell 

The silent sob of shaking shoulders as the candle drips and dies 

Driving out the tear smeared figure that I used to know as you (you) 

Your heel grinds out the cigarette stub you used to know as me 

Take a sip out of the dirty glass that helps to glitter up your dirty little life 

Loneliness may eat me up 

Keep determined to survive this time 

And skin like cocaine numb and yellow cut with poisoned pain 

Feel so shot and shocked and shattered and shamed 

But the hero and the heroine 

That scars and helps me mellow out again 

And close my eyes in ecstasy of cleaning out the decaying crimes 

That are sinking me in self pity 

Meet my eyes in fired goodbye 

Like a flick knife in the chest 

And just a tiny touch of you 

So dark and damned and easy 

Hope fallen the prey 

To a thousand use and abuse 'ems 

For I know that in the end the poison darts of hate 

Will eat you up and will rise up 

From the oily sea of my waxy lazy gloom 

And stick the final pin that sends you in humiliation from the room 

And I know you though you play marlene dietrich in the bar 

Sinking slurring out of key like some jarred and jaded star 

But the colour seems so faded fake fur that you surely are 

Your much more blue than angel say goodbye to style and pride 

As you show your heart with a naughty little organ 

That beats out the number on the knees 

The sensuality of the glorious diamonte dress 

That hangs from your shoulders baring your bruised and battered chest 

As you beat out the rhythm of the song 

The rhythm on the flesh singing 'einen mann' qualluded deluded 

Never never you and though you play at 

Cat and mouse by giving me your whisky mouth 

Remember that this little snake kisses you to kill 

And I'll buy them all drink to toast 

And charge the bill to you 

You'll never see a faster mover dart in for attack 

Slither shining 

Danger a winding belt of black 

Treacle runs from all your pores 

The venom from the bite 

Revenge is sweet and strikes just like a mamba every night 

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