More Blitz Than Ritz - The Crookes

More Blitz Than Ritz - The Crookes
If you are more blitz than ritz they'll tell you every day
That she's much too proud to take you out
Her dreams a frock away
And oh her majesty knows
That damn fine girls need damn fine clothes
Young girls dance in arabesques so swiftly through the dark
And they're hunted by those hounds of men
Who search for tell tale hearts
And oh we all still know
That it's far too hard to ever let them go
Don't lose sight of what you were hoping to be
Blood stains a rosary
And by night the choir's screaming
Set that child alight
If you long for foreign seas when winter proves too cruel
They'll be spitting from balconies
The drunken priest's a fool
God knows he's too poor to go
Begging down on the streets below
Red lace from another class tied loosely around their necks
And there's young love bound in blood stained gowns
They almost had their heads
And oh we all still know
That borrowed highs aren't worth the awful lows
Don't lose sight of what you were hoping to be
Blood stains a rosary
And by night the choir's screaming
Set that child alight
If you long for foreign seas when winter proves too cruel
They'll be spitting from balconies