Billy Childish

The Double Axe

Billy Childish


let me tell you baby 
you get me 3 miles down 
I'm 3 miles underground 
my head was lost in a guillotine machine 
and my body ain't never been found 
when you lose what you got 
and you don't get what you need 
you feel like you gotta receed 
when I hear the lies and then I learn the facts 
it cuts like a double axe 

let me tell you baby 
that in this world 
there's too many people alive 
they rub and they sell and they multiply 
but they don't get satisfied 
we kiss the dirt and we all get hurt 
our brains are anaesthetized 
cos love you're just a mindless slut 
and you cut on either side 

well this is the age of the young 
they're out there having their fun 
this is the age of the sophisticated 
and the worst hasn't even begun 

we're made to buy what we don't need 
we're forced to scrape and believe 

but when my thoughts they come to the fact 
they cut like a double axe