Film Noir Lyrics - The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem

I'm all washed out by the side of the road 

Broken bones Matilda left a note and a rose 

Sayin' "Baby honey child, I've loved you so long 

But you deserve much better than me" 

So I'm just burnin' all around all the miles in the road 

And I'm never goin' back and I'm never goin' home 

I've been gone too long, I've been less right than wrong 

I lost so much blood in the fallin' out 

And I lit a fire that wouldn't go out 

Until it consumed the walls and roof of this house 

Until all I remember was burnin' away 

And all I remember, you burned it away 

See, for ten long years I've been hustlin' around 

Tryin' to wash the sins and the sweat from my brow 

Tryin' to find a better life for me and my own 

Just some rest for these tired workin' fingers 

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But nobody never gonna tell you the way 

You gotta figure it out boys, and suffer the rain 

And the fools in the night, and the heat in the day 

When all you ever really wanted was for someone to understand 

And I lit a fire that wouldn't go out 

Until it consumed the walls and roof of this house 

Until all I remember was burnin' away 

And all that you left me, you burned it away 

Well, don't you take it so hard and baby, don't you cry 

You cross your hard heart and you hope to die 

Don't you tell me no more lies, you lied all the time 

Don't you tell me no more lies, you lied every night 

And you're sugar and spice and everything nice 

You got Monroe hips, poisoned lips and knives 

And you're sugar and spice and everything nice 

You got open wounds in a young boy's pride 

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And you're sugar and spice and everything nice 

You got Monroe hips, poisoned lips and knives 

Sugar and spice, everything nice 

You got open wounds in a young boy's pride 

And I lit a fire that wouldn't go out 

Until it consumed the walls and roof of this house 

Until all I remember was burnin' away 

And all that you left me, you burned it away 

Well, don't you take it so hard and baby, don't you cry 

You cross your hard heart and you hope to die 

Don't you tell me no more lies, you lied all the time 

Don't you tell me no more lies, you lied every night 

Time, time tickin' away