Through A Long & Sleepless Night Lyrics - Singles - Divine Comedy

Through a long and sleepless night / I thought upon the jury's plight 

If what is wrong can feel so right / then life's no longer black and 

white 

It's four o'clock and all's not well / in my private circle of hell 

I contemplate my navel hair / and slowly slide into despair 

This rut has fast become a trench / This smell has turned into the 

stench 

of rotten dreams and stale ideals / The past is snapping at my heels 

Oh Danny Boy the pipes are blocked / with bedtime blues and future shock 

I know the best is yet to come / but does it always take this long? 

I can put on the perfume, even wear the dress sometimes 

But I will always be the bridegroom and never the bride 

You deserve to be horse-whipped / But I've no horse that joke's so shit 

And whips would only make it worse / don't tempt the lonely and perverse 

The casualties of casual sex / The child of three with X-ray specs 

The conman low in self-esteem / The Casanova in your dreams 

I'll scream and scream and scream until / I've made myself critically 

ill 

in hospital in case you're there / in uniform, intensive care 

I know you'll be the death of me / but what a cool death that would be 

I'd rather die than be deprived / of Wonderbras and thunder thighs 

I can put on the perfume, even wear the dress sometimes 

But I will always be the bridegroom and never the bride 

Bored of normality? Why not go daft? / It's easy to do if you try 

Slide right back down that self-confident path / you've just so 

laboriously climbed 

Pickle your liver and addle your brain / Live the Bohemian life 

Die young and penniless somewhere in Spain / Then again you could try 

just to live your own life 

in the way that you find most amusing / I DON'T REALLY CARE! 

I can put on the perfume, even wear the dress sometimes 

But I will always be the bridegroom and I will never be the bride 

Never be the bride 

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