A Thousand Drunken Dreams - Angela McCluskey

Lover loves me

But he loves somebody new

Lover wants me

To be his mother too

He don’t recognize

His luck until his luck is through

He’s a nightingale

I’m an ugly dove

I don’t wanna speak

Done said enough

No one can mend a human heart that’s torn in two

In a moment’s space he’s gone

And my ship has run aground

And a thousand drunken dreams are sunken

If you leave me:

Lover, please leave me something

You

Don’t leave me diamonds

Don’t leave me jewels

You leave me silence

You leave me bruised

You leave me with the knowledge of the evil we do

But

Nothing could control the weather

And nothing could console my devils

And no-one knows the manner in which they’ll burn

In a moment’s space he’s gone

And my ship has run aground

And a thousand drunken dreams are sunken

If you leave me

Lover, please leave me something

You wrapped me in the stained shroud of morning

And pulled the cord

You threw me through the stained-glass floor

You dropped me in the hole

A whole lot of nothing

In a moment’s space he’s gone

And my ship has run aground

And a thousand drunken dreams are sunken

If you leave me

Lover, please leave me something