noels lament

[00:03.10] In my life, I was Noel Gruber who worked at

[00:05.12] Taco Bell (*￣-￣)

[00:06.19] in Uranium City, Saskatchewan

[00:08.85] But, in my dreams, I played a different role

[00:14.86] I was Monique Gibeau in post-war France

[00:24.31] A hooker with a heart of black charcoal

[00:32.28] I write poems to burn by firelight

[00:38.13] Drink champagne and guzzle gin

[00:43.17] Good girls call me "the town bicycle"

[00:46.89] Don't knock it 'til you've tried my life of sin

[00:52.38] Oh, Claude, my pimp, knows never mess with me

[00:56.89] Last prick did that faded quick to black

[01:01.67] I have no idea where to find him, officers

[01:06.19] But if you do, please mention that I'd like to have returned

[01:09.92] The pretty knife

[01:10.97] That I stuck ten times in his back

[01:19.91] For I sing songs until the break of dawn

[01:25.49] I embrace a new man every night

[01:27.88] My life's one never-ending carnival

[01:32.40] A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

[01:35.05] I want to be that fucked-up girl

[02:01.88] He said, "I think I am in love with you"

[02:06.13] I've heard that lie a million times before

[02:10.64] Oh, tonight I give in to the fantasy

[02:15.16] Take love when you can, when you're a whore

[02:20.48] For I sing songs until the break of dawn

[02:26.05] I embrace a new man every night

[02:28.35] My life's one never-ending carnival

[02:33.12] A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

[02:35.78] I want to be that fucked-up girl

[02:50.92] So now I sell my love for opium

[02:57.17] In some rat-infested Chinese dive

[03:03.54] At night I burn myself with cigarettes

[03:08.59] Just to somehow prove I'm still alive

[03:21.33] Eight months later, I catch typhoid flu

[03:26.11] Kicked out, I see the ugly light of day

[03:33.98] Dying in an alley, a priest kneels down to me

[03:46.39] "My child, do you have any final words to the Lord you'd like to say?"

[03:50.91] "Oui. Tell him that, like him, I choose to burn out rather than fade away"

[04:00.74] For I sing songs until the break of dawn

[04:08.97] I embrace a new man every night

[04:11.89] My life's one never-ending carnival

[04:17.21] A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

[04:19.60] For I sing songs until the break of dawn

[04:23.58] I embrace a new man every night

[04:25.44] My life's one never ending carnival

[04:28.90] A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

[04:30.50] I want to be that fucked-up girl

[04:33.14] I wanna be that fucked-up (girl)

[04:34.21] Broken heart, a flask of gin

[04:35.54] Tattooed with a safety pin

[04:37.14] Teeth all stained with nicotine

[04:38.45] Running nylons, shattered dreams

[04:40.05] Super crusty, holy terror

[04:41.38] Wild eyes and black mascara

[04:42.71] Broken heart, a flask of gin

[04:44.31] Tattooed with a safety pin

[04:45.64] Teeth all stained with nicotine

[04:46.96] Running nylons, shattered dreams

[04:48.28] Super crusty, holy terror

[04:49.89] Wild eyes and black mascara

[04:50.94] If I could have just one dream (ahh)

[04:52.96] (If he could have just one dream)

[04:54.30] I'd be that fucked-up girl!

[04:56.68] Hey!