Blue Heaven Lyrics - Singles - Pogues

Alligators snap at your ankles 

And branches snap at your brain 

If I ever get through this swamp alive 

I'll nevermore pray for rain 

This must be the place 

And still it somehow don't seem right 

Something in the moon could change 

These endless days to lonely nights 

I take a stroll down by the sea 

And walk along the pier 

Then I slip and hit my head 

Now's the time to fear 

I see the surface, see the rocks 

See my past fly swiftly by 

I feel the water in my lungs 

And wake up screaming for my life 

In my blue heaven 

There's a bottle of Pontchartrain 

Chalmette by moonlight 

To take away the pain 

Card sharks and blue harps 

And dolphins who leap 

In my blue heaven 

Where I can laugh and I can weep 

Black shapes zip into corners 

The big lads start to crawl 

To holes of their own making 

In the cracks within the wall 

Snakes and rats and spiders 

I know that they're still there 

I pray to God that I may sleep 

Without a hope, without a care 

In my blue heaven 

There's a bottle of Pontchartrain 

Chalmette by moonlight 

To take away the pain 

Felines and sea lions 

And rain on the beach 

In my blue heaven 

With angels who aren't out of reach 

In my blue heaven 

There's a bottle of Pontchartrain 

Chalmette by moonlight 

To take away the pain 

Nightingales sing 

And the bells they will ring 

In my blue heaven 

The bells of Hell 

Go ding a ling a ling