[Verse 1]
I codify: next week there's a new born tax
Not married so I can't relax
Honest so I don't react, yet
Silence has kissed my back
Licked fickle by the bedroom pact
A rumour never moves with tact, no
[Pre-Chorus 1]
A heart like a candle
Melted with a frying pan handle
Left on the heat too long
Now only can I sing this song:
[Chorus]
Even my own mother cannot take me back
Even my own mother cannot take me back
No take me back, no
[Verse 2]
So I drive around this town
Thatched new by the thrust of the cuts
Bollards and the legacies they all outgrew
Coastal but wrecked by blue
Ripped ships from the sk**s we knew
Moreish so you'll see this through
[Pre-Chorus 2]
A heart like a candle
Melted with a chip pan handle
Left on the heat too long
Now only can I sing this song:
[Chorus]
[Verse]
I'm sleeping in a box
No windows, no door locks
My head is a shambles
Kipping in a row of brambles
[Pre-Chorus 1]
[Outro]
Even my own mother cannot take me back
Even my own mother cannot take me back
No take me back, no
Take me back, no, [x 11]
Take me back