[bad word] thecrookes

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 [bad word] fine girls need [bad word] 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 [bad word] 
they'll be spitting from balconies 
the [bad word] 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 round 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.