Lloyd Cole - Lost Weekend

Easy Pieces / 1985-11-01 1. Rich 2. Why I Love Country Music 3. Pretty Gone 4. Grace 5. Cut Me Down 6. Brand New Friend 7. Lost Weekend 8. James 9. Minor Character 10. Perfect Blue 11. Her Last Fling 12. Nevers End

Lost Weekend

It took a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam
and double pneumonia in a single room.
And the sickest joke was the price of the medicine.
Are you laughing at me now?
May I please laugh along with you?

This morning I woke up from a deep, unquiet sleep
with ashtray clothes and this lonelyheart`s pen
with which I wrote for you a lovesong in tattoo
upon my palm.
'Twas stolen from me when Jesus took my hand.
You see I - I wouldnт