Tumbling Down Lyrics - Steve Harley

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures 

Me, I regard it a tortuous hardship that smoulders 

Like a peppermint eaten away 

(will fight, will I swagger or sway? ) 

Hee, hee, m'lady, she cries like a baby to scold us 

See her tumbling down, tumbling down 

Hail! to the monkey; we're having a funky reunion 

Wasted and sunk, he can only have sunday communion 

He got nicotine stains in his eyes 

He got nothing to protect but his pride 

Oh! smother ihe kiss or be drownded in blissful contusion 

See it tumbling down, tumbling down 

Juvenile tale, (see ihe titanic sail into brighton) 

The hemingway stacatto, the tragic bravado can frighten! 

To be here, there and everywhere's fine 

But do you have to be so swift all the time? 

Deliver the dawn to the moulin-rouge on the horizon 

Watch it tumbling down, tumbling down 

(reirain) oh! dear, look what they've done to the blues, blues, blues