The Lovers & The Losers [feat. Kat Kleve]

from Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist by Owen Franklin

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Madeleine, you’re looking fine, oh how I wish that you were mine
And other such pathetic lines created by my lovesick mind
She doesn’t love you back you chiromaniac, so do the right thing Jack and give it up
Oh Christopher I’m missing ya, oh how I wish that I was yours
Why can’t you see a girl like me is better than those other whores
He says he thinks you’re fake, a spiteful little snake
So please for Heaven’s sake find somebody new
I love her even so / I love him even so
I’ll never let her go / I’ll never let him go
Oh what’s a lovesick teenage boy to do / Oh what’s a lovesick teenage girl to do
Well it happens every day, boy and girl, young and old alike
Some succeed while others lose
I think that love songs are twee, I’d rather sing the blues
The world can see / La la, never forget you
Your misery / Blah blah, always regret you
So dry your eyes now darling, you have my deepest sympathy / Sing the cliché loud for me
It’s true what others say / Oh I know
Though it may not feel that way / It hurts me so
But I can guarantee that there will always be plenty more fish in the sea / Will I find my peace of mind...?
He’s stringing me along I see, oh how I’d like to string him up
I swear she can’t be good for me, so why don’t I just give her up? (Give her up...)
I don’t mean to complain (So you’re not gonna thank her?)
But I’m sick of all the pain (Well noone cares you wanker)
There’s nothing left to gain but more of the same
We’re going nowhere fast, this isn’t going to last, I simply can’t be arsed
It happens every day anyway no matter what you’re like / Some succeed, others lose
Some succeed, others lose / I don’t care
I think that love songs are twee / This won’t go
I’d rather be with you / Anywhere

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from Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist, released February 1, 2011

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