I thought that I was hungry for love
Maybe I was just hungry for blood
Sea foam woman on the shore
Your prairie ghost,
I'm a cottage whore
All the mermaids have sharp teeth
Razor blades all in your feet
England is only ever grey or green
The girls glitter striding glorious
and coatless in the rain
I remember falling
through these streets
Somewhat out of place,
if not for the drunkenness
It makes my chest hurt to think of it
Not of regret, but of missing that
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
It was not all pain and
pavements slick with rain
And shining under lights from
shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs
And hugging girls that smelt like
Britney Spears and coconuts
And with your mermaid hair
and your teeth so sharp
You crawled from the sea
to break that sailor's heart
You only get one night upon the shore
So dance like you've
never danced before
And the dance floor is
filling up with blood
But, oh, Lord,
you've never been so in love
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
And the mermaids,
they come once a year
They climb the struts of Brighton Pier
They come to drink,
they come to dance
To sacrifice a human heart
And the world is so much
wilder than you think
You haven't seen nothing till you
seen an English girl drink
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion
Cheerful oblivion