논쟁의 여지 없이 21세기 영국 최고의 이슈메이커 밴드로 명명되는 리버틴스의 베스트앨범이다. 1997년 결성되어 2002년 평론가들의 극찬을 받았던 데뷔앨범 ‘Up The Bracket’ 을 발표하고 게러지락(Garage-Rock) 포스트 펑크(Post-Punk) 의 선두주자로 추앙받았으며 두 번째이자 마지막 앨범이 된 ‘Down In Albion’ 으로 UK 앨범차트 1위를 거머쥐었다. 본 앨범은 정규앨범의 곡들을 포함 EP에 수록되었던 최고의 곡들을 담고 있어 이들의 음악을 사랑하는 팬들이라면 반드시 소장할만한 높은 가치를 선사한다.
I saw two shadow men on the Vallance Road Said they'd pay me for your address Oh I was so bold I said you see these two cold fingers These crooked fingers I show You a way to mean no Well they didn't like that much I can tell you Said 'sunshine I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes' They chased me up two flights of stairs Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said Hello 'cause you're impossible But it's just like he's in another world He doesn't see the danger on show Wind up like Joseph bloody in a hole And it's just like she's in another world And how they suit each other oh no But they never get close It's impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally road Said now they'd double their offer I was so bold To say you see these two cold fingers These crooked fingers I show Oh yous a way to mean no But it's just like he's in another world He doesn't see the danger on show end up like Joseph bloody in a hole It's just like she's in another world How they suit each other oh no But you never get close It's unstoppable
But it's just like we're all in another world How we suit each other oh no But we never get close Thats close enough now
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot We were shovelled up like muck Set the night on fire Wombles bleed truncheons and shields You know I cherish you my love
But there's a rumour spread nasty diseases around town Caught round the houses with your trousers down A headrush in the bush You know I cherish you my love How i cherish you my love
What can you want now you've got it all The whole scene is obscene Time will strip it away A year and a day And Bill Bones Bill Bones he knows what I mean
Yes it's eating no it's chewing me up It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood Oh it's all It's all in my hands And its all up the walls
Well the stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down Its these ignorant faces that bring this town down Yeah I sighed and sunken with pride I passed myself down on my knees Yes I passed myself down on my knees
What can you want now you've got it all The whole scene is obscene Time will strip it away A year and a day And Bill Bones Bill Bones knows what I really mean
There are fewer more distressing sights than that Of an Englishman in a baseball cap Yeah we'll die in the class we were born That's a class of our own my love Were in a class of our own my love
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot We were shovelled up like muck Then set the night on fire Wombles bleed truncheons and shields You know I cherish you my love Oh how I cherish you my love.
Don't look back into the sun Now you know that your time has come And they said that it'd never come for you Oh my friend you haven't changed Looking rough and living strange And I know that you've got a taste for it too
I shall never forgive you But she won't let you go No, never forgive you And they wont let you go Oh no!
Don't look back into the sun You got your past, but you are on the run I know the lies you said You dared to say
I heard that song at the Death Disco Starts so fast and ends so slow All the time I had to think of you
I shall never forgive you But she won't let you go No, never forgive you And they wont let you go Oh no!
Even now there's something To be proud about You come up the hard way And they'll remind you every day You're nothing
Oh my words in your mouth Are mumbled all about You're like a journalist How you can cut and paste and twist You're awful
Tell it to your king Tell him everything you know Tell him you know how I feel Tell him you know how I feel at the palace gates Oh I'm all levered off my face And just to work out what it's on about And see snakes in eyes And danger signs
If you were late you mustn't dare complain And you won't like this at all There's nothing to break your fall
Oh tell it to your king Tell him everything you know And you know how I feel out of place Until I'm levered off my face And I can't work out what your on about Didn't they explain You have to play the game, oh-oh
He drinks and smokes his cares away His heart is in the lonely way Living in the ruins Of a castle built on sand
What a waster, what a fucking waster You pissed it all up the wall Round the corner where they chased her There's tears coming out from everywhere The city's hard The city's fair Get back inside, you've got nothing on No, mind your bleedin' own you two bob cunt
When she wakes up in the morning She writes down all her dreams Reads like the Book of Revelations Or the Beano, or the unabridged Ulysses Oh, I really wanna know So tell me Where does all the money go, where does all the money go Straight, straight up her nose
And I never really liked it any way So much preferred it the other way, yeah
What a divvy, what a fucking div Talking like a moron, walking like a spiv I was laying in bed, paying my rent He was knocking on the door for something that she lent her brother Meanwhile from under the covers she says Save me from tommorow now, save me from tommorow Oh no Oh no, not me
And I never really liked it any way So much preferred it the other way, yeah Never really liked it any way So much preferred it the other way, yeah
What a waster, what a fucking waster You pissed it all up the wall Round the corner where they chased her There's tears coming out from everywhere The city's hard The city's fair Get back inside you've got nothing on No, mind your bleedin' own you two bob cunt
What a waster, what a fucking waster You pissed it all up the wall Round the corner where they chased her There's tears coming out from everywhere The city's hard The city's fair Get back inside you've got nothing on No, mind your bleedin' own you two bob cunt
You're walking like you never seen the light You're walking like it every night But I've never seen you dance, and I've never heard you sing So how can it mean a single thing It's all so rudimentary
You're talking like your handy in a fight You talk about it every night But I've never seen your flowers, in the barrel of a gun All I've ever seen you do is run It's all so rudimentary
So tell me baby how does it feel I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel
And they all get them out for (they all get them out) The boys in the band (only for the boys in the band) They twist and they shout for (twist and scream and shout) For the boys in the band (only for the boys in the band)
You're walking like you never seen the light You're walking like it every night But then I stop to think, I ask my self why One of those things that darling you must try It's all so rudimentary
Now I'm jealous, I'm jealous of my own I've no homestead but through these hearts I will roam, yea
And they all get them out for (they all get them out) For The boys in the band (only for the boys in the band) Yes they all roll them out for (twist and scream and shout) For The boys in the band Only for the boys in the band
Well tell me baby how does it feel I know you like the roll of the limousine wheel
And they all get them out for (they all get them out) The boys in the band (only for the boys in the band) They scream and they shout for (twist and scream and shout) For the boys in the band (only for the boys in the band)
From way far across the sea Came an eritrean maiden she Had a one track mind and eyes for me Half blinded in the war
With a pale young Anglican Who said he'd help her all he can Showed her Jesus and his little un-holy friend She had no mind to please him Just say 'ta-ra' and leave him behind
There's a little boy in a stairwell who says "I hate people like you" Got matches & cable TV half of less than 50p We all clambered over the balcony Banging on the window waking Steve Bringing with a true love his un-holy friend If you really need it You just won't leave it behind
So baby please kill me Oh baby don't kill me But don't bring that ghost round to my door I don't wanna see him anymore
Please kill me Oh baby don't kill me Just don't bang on about yesterday I wouldn't know about that anyway
Monkey asked the mouse before If she loved anybody more than he It turns you into stone Now I'm reversing down the lonely street To a cheap hotel when I can meet the past And pay it off and keep it sweet It's sweet like nothing no It's just like nothing at all
Yes I've seen you there How could I help but stare It rips the heart out off your baby Now I've taken far too much to see Or think or touch what's real I'm stranded on this street that Paved my only way home
You really need it oh You just won't leave it behind
So baby please kill me Oh baby don't kill me But don't bring that ghost round to my door I don't wanna see him anymore
Please kill me Oh baby don't kill me But don't bang on about yesterday I wouldn't know about that anyway Oh no
Please don't get me wrong 제발 오해하지마 See I forgive you in a song 봐, 음악으로 널 용서하잖아 We'll call the Likely Lads 우린 '잘 나가는 녀석들'이 되기로 했지 But if it's left to you 하지만 너로 인해 이룰 수 없다니 I know exactly what you'd do 우리의 꿈을 앞세워 With all the dreams we had 니가 무슨 짓을 했는지 알겠어
Just blood runs thicker, oh 피는 물보다 진하다고 했던가 We're as thick as thieves, you know 알잖아, 우린 형제보다 가까웠어 If that's important to you 그게 네게도 의미가 있을 거라 생각해서 (It's important to me) (내게도 중요해) I tried to make you see 이해시키려 노력했지 But you don't wanna know 하지만 넌 알려고 하지 않았어 (You don't want to know) (너 역시 마찬가지야)
If you pipe all summer long 여름 내내 마약에 빠져도 Then get forgiven in a song 음악으로 용서를 구하면 돼 (Well that's a touch, my lad) (그거 참 감동적이네, 친구) They sold the rights to all the wrongs 녀석들이 나쁜 짓을 하도록 부추겼잖아 And when they knew you'd give me songs 그래서 니가 새로 만든 곡을 줬을 때 말했지 Welcome back, I said 돌아온 걸 환영한다고
Just blood runs thicker, oh 피는 물보다 진하다고 했던가 We're as thick as thieves, you know 알잖아, 우린 형제보다 가까웠어 If that's important to you 그게 네게도 의미가 있을 거라 생각해서 (It's important to me) (내게도 중요해) I tried to make you see 이해시키려 노력했지 But you don't wanna know 하지만 넌 알려고 하지 않았어 (You don't want to know) (너 역시 마찬가지야)
Oh what became of the Likely Lads? 오, '잘 나가는 녀석들'이 되기로 한 건 어떻게 된거야? What became of the dreams we had? 우리가 가졌던 꿈과 이상은? Oh what became of forever? 오, 영원히 함께 하기로 한 건? Oh what became of forever? 오, 영원히 함께 하기로 한 건? Though, we'll never know 우린 결코 알 수 없겠지
Please don't get me wrong 제발 오해하지마 See I forgive you in a song 봐, 음악으로 널 용서하잖아 Will call the Likely Lads 우린 '잘 나가는 녀석들'이 되기로 했지 We all bought the ones 필요한 것들을 전부 샀고 We taught 'em all we wrote the songs 사람들에게 우리가 만든 음악을 들려줬어 That's filled with dreams we have 우리의 꿈으로 가득한 노래를
Oh what became of the Likely Lads? 오, '잘 나가는 녀석들'이 되기로 한 건 어떻게 된거야? What became of the dreams we had? 우리가 가졌던 꿈과 이상은? Oh what became of forever? 오, 영원히 함께 하기로 한 건? Oh what became of forever? 오, 영원히 함께 하기로 한 건? Though, we'll never know 우린 결코 알 수 없겠지