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Sleeping Dogs Lie

from Karaoke by walkytalky

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lyrics

Come...

Come...

Come to the dance
At Kalashnikov Hall
Where the price of a beer
Is a tear from your eye

Where our truest delight
At the end of the night
Is to see lovers quarrel
And watch passion die

Meet Spanish Pete
At his seat in the dark
Where he's nursing a tumbler
Of bitters and rye

Broken-hearted, alone
He should've stayed home
But he never did learn
To let sleeping dogs lie

So he's back one more time
To the scene of the crime
Just to see Jet Boy Eddie
Sour apple of his eye

Eddie's one of those angels
Or devils, or both, that you'll
Always find plenty of
Lurking nearby

He's a dazzling sight
In the glitterball's light
Bumping, grinding, arms draped
Round some other doomed guy

Pete stalking his prey
That's tonight's cabaret
We won't have to wait long
To see a grown man cry

Come to the dance
At Kalashnikov Hall
Where friendship’s a poison
That’s in short supply

We’re all young and pretty
And bitter and witty
It’s a town without pity
Just one long goodbye

Pete’s out of his chair now,
Propelled by despair
And he’s too drunk to care
If it all goes awry

There’s still time to retreat
To his home, to his seat
But he never did learn
To let sleeping dogs lie

Pete staggers, unsteady
As he squares up to Eddie
And blearily, whimpering
Begs to know why

Jet Boy Eddie just sneers
At his last victim’s tears
He’s pointing and laughing
And slapping his thigh

His new boy joins in too
And now me, and now you
The performance is ending
The moment is nigh

We crowd around greedily
Needing to feed
On the money shot:
Making a grown man cry

He came to the dance
At Kalashnikov Hall
Where you’re lucky to leave
Only wanting to die

But he’ll be right back tomorrow
To wallow in sorrow
Cos he never did learn
To let sleeping dogs...
Lie...

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from Karaoke, released October 20, 2014

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