Lucky Soul

Struck Dumb

Album: The Great Unwanted [2007]
Author: Andrew Laidlaw

Shady, shameless and hurtful

The bitterest cream makes the best cocktail curdle and

Undream, all that you long for

To throw it all down and retreat into a corner and cry

 

“I want you so bad that it hurts

I want you so bad that it burns right through”

Forever struck dumb, dum dum de do woah a woah

Struck dumb, dum dum de do woah

 

Baby, I’ll not desert you

When carrion crows argue envy is a virtue

They bleed green.  Don’t let your guard down

The magic don’t touch when you curl into a small ball and cry

 

“I want you so bad that it hurts

I want you so bad that it burns right through”

Forever struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah

Struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah

 

Lately, silent survival

Has brilliant thoughts turning grey on arrival

Like old gum: stretched out and worthless

A literate thirst is a hearse when you can’t say the lines

 

“I want you so bad that it hurts

I want you so bad that it burns right through”

Forever struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah

Struck dumb, dum dum de doo woah a woah