we could sit in here and drink right through the night 
hear the tales of drugs and alcohol and fights 
and where the stories go around the car park in the snow but 
it’s a black and white world to live inside 
marx was wrong and groucho’s gone (why not) 
give chance a piece of what’s going on 
the little white lies and the long white lines 
only hide the cracks in what we’re standing on 

we are born and then we become what we are 
strung between the lines of a guitar 
and many seem to want what none would surely choose again; 
the graves of rockers 

you don’t have to suffer like you do 
this is the strangest place you’ve been 
sat in the back 
of a stretch limousine 
you drink to ishmael the one that’s left alive 
a drink is an article of faith 
to someone with more than one face 
to show to the world when you cannot sneak it past 
and you want to have it all, ahead of time 

there written on each granite slab of stone 
above the bleaching, brittle bones 
the numbers don’t add up, there’s none 
would surely choose again 
the graves of rockers 

few things hurt more 
than being ignored 
face up in the bath a stupid smile upon your face you only 
forget why you’d done it all 

there written on each slab of frozen stone 
above the bleaching, brittle bones 
the numbers don’t add up there’s none would surely choose again 
the graves of rockers