Labelled With Love Lyrics

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She unscrews the top of her new whisky bottle
Shuffles about in her candle-lit hovel
Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens She smells like the cat
And the neighbours she sickens.
Black and white TV had long seen a picture
The cross on the wall is a permanant fixture
The postman delivers the final reminders
She sells off her silver and poodles and china.

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Drinks to remember I, me and myself
And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf. Home is a love that I miss very much
So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

During the wartime an American pilot
Made every air-raid a time of excitement
She moved to his prarie and married the Texan
She loved from a distance, our love was a lesson
He became drinker and she became mother
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other
He ate himself old and
Drunk himself dizzy
Proud of her features she kept herself pretty.

CHORUS

He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber
Out on the porch in the middle of summer
She crossd the ocean back home to her family
But they had retired to roads that were sandy
She moved home alone without friends or relations Lived in a world full of age reservations
On moth-eaten armchairs
She'd say that she'd sod all
Her friends who had left her to drink from her bottle

CHORUS [X2]

The past has been bottled and labelled with love [X2]

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