When a Woman Is Around - Unloved, Andrew Weatherall

I don’t pretend to know the ways of the world

A means to an end seems a way

Who has the most of whatever’s best

All the better

May the best man win

An eye for an eye

Is a blind man’s rule

I wasn’t born to follow

I’m nobody’s fool

Any other man

Can soon end Saul

(Is that true?)

Truth is seldom found

(By a man)

When a woman is around

When a woman is around

Go for the old joke

No one can know

What makes you sigh, what makes you cry

Lose that Cheshire grin

Take it like the man

Keep what’s yours

Leave me mine

At the moment you could say

I am presently optimistic

Fuck the travails that bedevil

Put simply

For now

I acquiesce

Even now as it was then

So it will always be

The bridge has only widened

Guess your disguise is worth it

I was never born to lose

I belong to no party

Suspicion clouds

(A man’s heart)

When a woman is around

When a woman is around

Go for the old joke

No one can know

What makes you sigh, what makes you cry

Lose that Cheshire grin

Take it like the man

Keep what’s yours

Leave me mine

Lose that Cheshire grin

Take it like the man

Keep what’s yours

Leave me mine

When a woman is around

When a woman is around

When a woman is around

When a woman is around

When a woman is around…