Liars' Bar-Beautiful South

[ti:Liars' Bar] [ar:Beautiful South] [al:Blue Is The Colour] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Liars' Bar - Beautiful South [00:12.46]Written by：Paul Heaton/Dave Rotheray [00:24.92]Well sitting in a bar alone where no-one knows your name [00:29.08] [00:29.83]Is like laying in a graveyard wide awake [00:33.60] [00:35.47]You're scared that if you cough or yawn you might wake up the dead [00:40.63]So pretend to read a paper or just drink instead [00:45.17] [00:46.67]I'm a stand-up comedian but I'd sit down if I could [00:51.48]The world just seems to want folk like me to stand [00:55.45] [00:57.02]And the punch-lines seem to disappear like clouds across the sky [01:02.94]And the laughter could be real or could be canned [01:06.17] [01:08.36]Rum by the kettle drum [01:10.93]Whiskey by the jar [01:14.42] [01:15.67]At Liars' Bar [01:18.98] [01:27.22]Well living with a lying man could never really hurt [01:32.97]But living with a drunk well no-one deserves [01:37.43] [01:38.49]And you're looking for your husband you're not sure he's still alive [01:44.39]Don't bother with the cemetery he'll be down at liar's dive [01:49.13] [01:50.25]I'm a travelling businessman I just stopped in for one drink [01:55.88]You'll find that I'm not like the other men [02:00.37] [02:01.74]Their noses are red whilst mine is only pink [02:06.95]And they didn't choose their drink their drink chose them [02:12.29] [02:13.23]Rum by the kettle drum [02:15.95]Whiskey by the jar [02:18.78] [02:20.77]At Liars' Bar [02:23.66] [02:32.56]And the grave-digger's smiling at his reflection in his spade [02:38.35]He's visiting the seediest the shallowest of graves [02:43.18] [02:44.34]The vocal chords of elephants and the characters of mice [02:49.41]They're singing "whisky whisky" so good they named it twice [02:56.73] [03:01.36]And son this is rule one: [03:05.78] [03:06.72]Well don't pass buildings with lights on if I said that I did I'd have lied [03:12.41]'Cause what looks like a Chinese restaurant may have Chinese New Year inside [03:18.03]And son all my life I've been searching the bars I've been in I forget [03:22.78] [03:23.85]The lights outside ever brighter but a light on the inside not yet [03:29.88]Rum by the kettle drum [03:32.40]Whiskey by the jar [03:35.83] [03:37.39]At Liars' Bar [03:41.12] [03:49.50]And he's a world-wide traveller he's not like me or you [03:54.84]But he comes in mighty regular for one who's passing through [04:00.16] [04:00.85]That one came in his work clothes he's missed his last bus home [04:06.41]He's missed a hell of a lot of buses for a man who wants to roam [04:11.68] [04:12.49]You'll never get to Rome son [04:14.40] [04:18.52]And son this is rule two: [04:21.64] [04:23.32]If I look rough I am rough if I look sad I am [04:29.40]If I look broke am I broke just a broke down piece of man [04:36.47] [04:41.71]I don't mean to get sad on you at all but this is the truth: [04:45.28] [04:46.24]I've turned over enough leaves to fill an autumn if I had one final wish [04:51.92]I'd be your slave for a decade if you could take me away from this pish [04:57.97]If you took me away from this I'd be different you'd see [05:03.47]'Cause I didn't choose the drink a drink just chose me [05:08.91] [05:09.59]Rum by the kettle drum [05:12.34]Whiskey by the jar [05:15.42] [05:17.17]At Liars' Bar Well I'm smoking like a chimley And I'm drinking like a fish At Liars' Bar